Handbook for predicting slash weight of western conifers

James Brown; J. A. Kendall Snell; David L. Bunnell

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Handbook for predicting slash weight of western conifers

Informally Refereed

Authors:

James Brown, J. A. Kendall Snell, David L. Bunnell

Year:

1977

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-37. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 35 p.

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Abstract

As an aid to managing fuel and wood debris, procedures are provided for predicting weights of slash using tables of either slash weight per tree by d.b.h., or slash weight including crowns (live and dead foliage and branchwood) and unmerchantable bole tips to 3-, 4-, and 6- inch diameter limits. Slash weights can be predicted for material less than and greater than 3 inches in diameter.

Keywords

slash, forest fuels, tree biomass

Citation

Brown, James K.; Snell, J. A. Kendall; Bunnell, David L. 1977. Handbook for predicting slash weight of western conifers. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-37. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 35 p.