The influence of thinning to different stocking levels on compression wood development in ponderosa pine

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 92-100

  Reader, Tim G ^a   Kurmes, Ernest A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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