FORESTERS' TIPS, TECHNIQUES, AND TRICKS OF THE TRADE

bullet1 TECHNICAL

bullet2 RELASCOPE

Take the trouble to learn how to use the Spiegel relascope efficiently. With practice you can read off diameters at any height to a sufficient accuracy to construct local volume tables very quickly.  A large number of readings carried out on a range of species and diameter classes will be more use than the measurement of a few trees that have been felled and measured accurately. on the ground.