Wood and lumber properties from unthinned and precommercially thinned black spruce plantations

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-179

  Tong, Que Ju ^a   Fleming, Robert L ^b   Tanguay, Francis ^a   Zhang, S Y ^a  

^a FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

^b GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Lumber bending properties; MSR lumber; Plantation; Precommercial thinning; Thinning intensity; Visual grading; Wood properties

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; MSR LUMBER; PLANTATION; PRECOMMERCIAL THINNING; THINNING INTENSITY; VISUAL GRADING;

LUMBER; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

BENDING; FORESTRY; LUMBER; PICEA MARIANA; PLANTATIONS; THINNING; WOOD; WOOD PROPERTIES;

PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 65549091932     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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