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  1. Financial Maturity: A Guide to Increasing Financial Returns From Your Woodland

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-48

    Consider, for example, a yellow-poplar tree, 18-inch-dbh, containing two merchantable logs (32 feet), ... According to a Doyle volume table 2, the volume of an 18-inch-dbh tree containing two merchantable logs is ... next 10 years, the tree is expected to grow four inches in diameter and increase one-half log in ...

  2. Crop Tree Management: A Tool to Help You Achieve Your Woodland Goals

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-50

    healthy, and in or above the main canopy. High-value commercial species. High-quality tree with: Butt log ... of Crop Tree Management in Eastern Hardwoods. 2 Although written for professionals, its content is ... (From:  Crop Tree Management in Eastern Hardwoods.  USDA-FS. Used with permission.) The free-to-grow ...

  3. Using the Tree Measuring Stick

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-62

    tree measuring stick is a useful tool for measuring trees and logs. Although not as precise as more ... specialized tools, it is inexpensive, easy to carry, and accurate enough for most of your tree and log ... from your eye to the stick is 25 inches. Estimating the Merchantable Height of a Tree (in 16 foot logs ...

  4. Measuring Standing Trees

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-35-02

    volume measure for trees and logs to be used for lumber and veneer. The board-foot volume of a tree or ... log is an expression of the number of board feet of lumber that can be cut from that tree or log. The ... lumber volume that can be cut from a tree or a log depends on a great many variables, including how the ...

  5. Using Local Woodlot Lumber

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-9-03

    hardwoods and 25 different softwood tree species. Historically, humans have used wood and wood products for ... trees and shrubs, there are only twelve groups of hardwood species that make up the core group of ... Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; Ohio State University Extension Ohio's Appalachian hardwoods are ...

  6. Timber Theft in Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-97

    person's property and knowingly cuts and removes a tree or trees without the permission of the landowner it ... variable, but it can be as high as a few thousand dollars per tree or tens of thousands of dollars per acre. ... to the offended landowner for their loss. The solutions, however, are not so simple! Logs are ...

  7. Getting the Most Return From Your Timber Sale

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-37

    size, and quality of trees or logs; distance of the trees or logs from the market; accessibility of the ... quality logs, should always be left to the buyer. A discussion of proper techniques of cutting, handling, ... financial condition and how urgently the trees or logs are needed; and differences between buyers in their ...

  8. Forest Management

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-34-02

    Developing a Plan to Care for Your Forest F-34 03/12/2024 Reviewed by: Kathy Smith, Program ... timber harvest, wildlife habitat enhancement, and the maintenance of aesthetic quality. Forest management ... inventoried. Obviously, the tree/forest resources will be inventoried and such forest characteristics as tree ...

  9. Timber Sale Contracts

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-38-02

    a stand of trees is partially cut, careless logging can excessively damage or destroy the value of the ... timber. In addition, by following management guidelines in selecting those trees to be harvested and those ... to leave standing, they improve the health and vigor of their forest as well as its quality for other ...

  10. Hobby Maple Syrup Production

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-36

    University of Vermont Proctor Research Center are to use one tap for trees 10 to 12 inches in diameter, two ... when maple producers in Ohio and other parts of northeastern North America tap maple trees to collect ... north. If you have access to a few maple trees, whether growing in your yard or in a woodland, you can ...

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