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US Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Отрасли: Forest products; Government
Number of terms: 2933
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Fiber from wood with varying degrees of purification that is used for the production of paper, paper board, and chemical products.
Industry:Forest products
Place where logs are accumulated.
Industry:Forest products
System of power-operated winches used to haul logs from a stump to a landing. Also known as a donkey.
Industry:Forest products
Wood brought into a yard in the form of tree lengths, logs, or bolts, to be cut into shorter lengths.
Industry:Forest products
Initial hauling of a log from the stump to a collection point.
Industry:Forest products
Yarding of cull, rotten, small, or otherwise unsalable wood material to a designated area for disposal is written into the timber contract. Required on all USDA Forest Service timber sale contracts.
Industry:Forest products
Path followed by a turn of logs yarded by a cable method.
Industry:Forest products
1. Steel tower used on a steel spar skidder. 2. Light-weight tower built on a tractor.
Industry:Forest products
1. Amount of product output recovered from a quantity of raw material input in forest product industries. 2. Estimate in forest mensuration of the amount of wood that may be harvested from a particular type of forest stand by species, site, stocking, and management regime at various ages.
Industry:Forest products
Heavy U-shaped part of a block by which the pulley is attached.
Industry:Forest products