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"Under British Columbia's Forest Act, all timber harvested from both Crown and private land must be scaled. Timber is scaled to determine its volume and quality. This manual documents how timber is scaled for purposes of The Forestry Act and the Scaling Regulation." - from Introduction. Topics include: Scaling Overview; Timber Marking and Branding; Species Identification; Common Defects; Firmwood Scaling Procedures; Timber Grading; Documenting and Reporting Scale Results; Special Forest Products; The Weight Scale System; Weight Scale Sampling; Scaling Administration. Includes some colour illustrations. Very large and heavy binder (shipping weight 10 pounds) almost three inches thick - contains many hundreds of pages. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name and details upon first page. No other markings found. A quality copy of this very comprehensive and informative manual. Book
18 fascicules broch?s. Rousseurs. Mouillure en marge.
213 pages. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Printed upon glossy stock. The 43 chapters include such topics as Early Port San Juan, Jordan River - Logging with Rail; Sooke and Otter Districts, WWI; The Depression Years; Boyd & Garrison; Seaton, Peatt & Eve, Munns; Butlers, CIP Inc.; Silviculture; and much more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely copy. Book
105 pages. Generously illustrated with reproductions of colour and black and white photos. The fascinating autobiography of Frank Barnard who, after serving in WWII, returned to Canada and went on to a successful business career in the tree seed business. Clean and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
220 pages. Index. Addresses these topics: Slope movement processes and characteristics; An office/field technique for recognizing landslide-prone terrain; Measure to manage unstable terrain during forestry activities; Road deactivation and revegegation of unstable terrain. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
Full title: A Hundred Years A-Fellin': Some Passages from the Timber Saga of the Ottawa in the Century in Which the Gillies have Been Cutting in the Valley 1842-1942. xiv, [2], 172 pages. References. Sepia-tone reproductions of archival photos. Many illustrations in text. Fold-out colour map. List of illustrations. Map endpapers of the Ottawa Valley Watershed. Handsomely decorated forest green cloth-covered boards lettered in silver. A slightly modified reprint of the 1943 first edition. Documents one hundred years of history of Gillies Brothers, Limited - lumber manufacturers. Book as new. Appears unread. Moderate wear to photo-illustrated dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy. Bishop p.111. Book
254 pages. Covers the history of our forests, their relationship to other forests of the world, the kind of trees that make up their present composition and their biological responses to different environments. Generously illustrated with large attractive colour photography. Some lean to spine. Average wear. Gift greetings and donation inscription upon front endpaper. Solid copy in chocolate brown boards. Book
Brochure ron?ot?e. 18 pages. 21X29,7 cm.
tall 8vo [24.5 x 16.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xxii, 318; x, [319]-624 pp, 149 plates including 36 color lithographed plates (chromolithographs), most others engraved or lithographed, some folding, some heliotypes, other illus, index. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spines lightly faded but lettering clear, erased stamp on title, else a very clean, fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of all the main types of trees and shrubs then found in Massachusetts, with considerable detail on each and where examples were then found. Greatly expanded from earlier editions and beautifully illustrated. Massachusetts Horticultural Society 88. Bennett 40. BMNH 525. Jackson 346, Sabin 22429. Pritzel 2676.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). [xiv], 252 p., 36 p. folding plans and forms. B/w ills. Research of transportation of forest as transport technique in Bolu and its environment. In Turkish and large abstract in English. A study on forest transportation in Bolu Region from the viewpoint of transport technique.= Bolu mintikasinda orman nakliyatinin nakliyat teknigi bakimindan arastirilmasi.
Madrid, Calpe, 1923 ("Catecismos del Agricultor y del Ganadero"). 4to.; 32 pp. Con 24 figuras. Cubiertas originales.
9.3" x 4.25" brochure which folds out to 25" x 18.5". Undated but circa 1950. One side is filled with informative photos and fine print describing many facets of the province of Alberta including: irrigation, climate, population, labour, education, unemployment insurance, communications, water, transportation, oil, oil soaked sands, natural gas, power resources, forestry resources, manufacturing, income tax, cost of living, commodity prices, wages, religion and family allowances. Reverse side blank. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice piece of Alberta ephemera. Book
64 pages. Features: A Glimpse into the Colorful Past of the Ontario-Minnesota Border Lakes - by Ernest C. Oberholtzer - article with wonderful photos; The Search for 11-year-old Jimmy Blake in Arizona's Blue Range - article with photos; The Huge Tulip Trees of North Carolina - photo-illustrated article by Orpheus Moyer Schantz; The Murmer of the Forest - by John L. Coontz; The Chippewa National Forest - photo-illustrated article by H.H. Chapman; The Farmer and Game Conservation - photo-illustrated article by James F. Hoge; The First Year of the Association's Southern Forestry Educational Project; "Old Yolla Bolly" the Bear - photo-illustrated article by Allen H. Hodgson; Two-pages of photos of bizarre trees; George P. Brett (President of Macmillan Publishing) and his foremost private Pinetum in the country - photos and article by Erle Kauffman; Water-Cress - article by Rachel M. Hutchinson; The Hall of Fame for Trees - photos and captions; The Care of Young Forests - photo-illustrated article by G.H. Collingwood; Full-page ad for 4 Square Lumber; White-Pine Blister-Rust Quarantine, by R.A. Sheals; Nice ad for Pacific Pumpers on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
199pp. 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
VG/VG First Edition. not price-clipped. no inscriptions.. 8vo
Pages 194-256. Features: The Passing of the Maine Wilderness - article with photos of destruction by John C. Phillips; An Anchor to Forestward - How America Tried to Grow Trees for Sail of the line on Santa Rosa Island; Naming the Sequoia - article by Cristel Hastings; Robins and Ruminations - article by Guy W. von Schriltz; How Dierks Lumber and Coal Company is Placing one of the largest bodies of controlled timber in the world uner forest management; Wilderness Classroom - article with great animal photos by R.W. Hiestand; Bankers Join Forest Converts - realization that florests are 'flood insurance' arouses financial interests; American Forest Week - proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge; The Paradise of the Cedars - The Park of the Cedars in Algeria - great photos; Fireproofing the Georgia Woods, by I.F. Eldridge; Centerfold contains 8 amazing photos of unique trees; Chief Forester Greeley's Retirement; The Chinese Elm - a Valuable Tree; The Raindrop Family - a story for children; Shirley W. Allen Takes Up New Work; Snapshots of European Forests by an American Forester - Part IV - Finnish Forestry Pays, by John D. Guthrie - with photos; Boy Foresters Serve Denver - by David W. Thomas; Nice illustrated ad for the American KampKook gas range for the outdoor chef; A nice assortment of vintage ads; Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Centerfold loose but present. Cover holding by one staple. Somewhat above-average wear. Pencil markings to back cover. Magazine
Pages 707-768. Features: The Christmas Fir is Born - by Henry Clepper; Meeting the Red Menace (Forest Fire) - Uncle Sam's Policy of Trying to Save Pennies on Forest Fires is the Weak Link in National Forest Protection - article with great photos by Col. William B. Greeley; Evergreens of the Old Testament - by Adelaide Borah; Taming the Christmas Tree - the growing of evergreens for the Yule-tide season enters the ranks of new American industries - article with photos by Ovid M. Butler; Southern Cypress - article by Lysle Tomerlin with photos; Rusty and Ben (two bears) - story with photos by Stephen Doering; Keeping Christmas Green - the use of Holly and other plants to make wreaths; The Sport of Kings - Falconry - article with photos by Mabel Gillespie; Cutting Today's Forests to use in Coal Mines - article with nice photos by Thomas H. Wittkorn; The Tree That Would Not Die - the bald cypress beside the Monastery walls at St. Benedict's College in Indiana; Making better use of trees - article by C.L. Hamilton with amazing photos at the Wood Conversion Company at Cloquet, Minnesota; Seed Gathering in Minnesota's Pines - Men, Women and Children Comb the Innermost Haunts of America's Last Great Stand of Norway and White Pine for Seed in northern Minnesota - with photo of the Cass Lake Nursery kiln; The Fruit that named a forest - the Manzano apple trees planted at a Spanish mission centuries ago; Nice full-page travel ad for South Africa; Full-page ad by the Southern States Lumber Company features the sale of their 1,400 acre Magnolia Farm in Baldwin County, Alabama; Nice nostalgic ads. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Minimal pencil markings to contents. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Timberline Pine - poem by Eunice Skamser; The Plateau of the Thousand Cows - Plateau de Millevache in France - interesting article with photos illustrating the reclamation of 400,000 acres of worn-out grazing land; Redwoods - Ever-living memorials - article by J.D. Grant with fantastic photos; The Fugitive Canoe - by Olaus J. Murie; Southern Forestry Project Expands; Pymatuning - Penn's Wilderness - photo-illustrated article by George Miksch Sutton; The First-born of Alaskan Forests - How the Russian ship "Phoenix" was hewn from the Sylvan monarchs of Resurrection Bay - it was the first ship built on the Northwestern Coast of America - photo-illustrated article by H.J. Lutz; August George Becker - the Cabinet-Maker of Clermont - photo-illustrated article by Charles R. Keyes; Dressing up wayside (roadside) refreshment stands - article by Clare Winger with photos of "The Bee Hive" owned by George A. Parker of Hoosick Falls, New York, and "Green Gable Tavern" owned by James B. Stoughton, of Boswell, PA; Photo-illustrated article on fishing by Harry Botsford; Ariel - by Will Simmons; Bobby - the story of a young Robin - photo illustrated by Hugh and Elin Spencer; The Sovereign Cypress; Their Uninvited Guest - Constance Mainwaring writes of her family's adventure - with photos; The Planting of Trees and Forests; Editorial - Miscontrolling the Mississippi; Are Gray Squirrels Carnivorous? - photo-illustrated article by R.S. Maddox, State Forester of Tennessee; and more - including great photo ads. Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Faint mark across front cover (see photo). Name written atop Table of Contents. Relatively minor portions of moisture-related damage to top edge of last few pages. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
4to [28 x 20 cm]; xxii, 202 pp, frontis, plus 24 plates from photos on heavier paper, hundreds of other illustrations from photos and drwgs, plans, index. original green cloth with gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, edges a bit rubbed, small repair on spine, very good copy, pencil signature on endpaper but quite clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes the trees of northeastern United States and Canada with excellent illustrations and suggestions for their use.
"In 1980, 1,220 permanent sample plots on all ownerships in New Brunswick were assessed to determine the damage caused by the spruce budworm to spruce and balsam fir" - from Abstract. Bilingual English/French. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
206 pages. "Documents the strategic importance of the hardwood resource in British Columbia, within a framework that will be useful for management, research, and development plans." - from Introduction. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
Fine English Original bdg. In red hardcover. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 158 p., 14 plates. Dandroclimatological researches on age rings of Anatolian pine trees. Anadolu çamlarinda yil halkalari gelismesi üzerinde dendroklimatolojik arastirmalar. Translator: Kerim Ömer Çaglar.
71 pages. 1964 Edition of the Forestry Department Yearbook at Oregon State University. Illustrated in black and white. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
