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As old-growth forests disappear and harvested trees become smaller, so does the amount of clear wood away from the perimeter.
Here, amid sky-high pines and mosquitoes the size of pigeons, he and his elfin granddaughter, Ilona, seven, play together at clearing wood, and breathe in the rich, clean air.
A connection between the mesostructure of the clear wood and its local elastic modulus was observed.
Length of the pruned log varied slightly to maximise clear wood recovery.
Since the method only provides information regarding clear wood, it will have to be used together with other non- or semi-destructive methods that could accommodate the effect of defects on the loss of clear wood properties.
The validation of the method was carried out by a comparison with results obtained from a standard method used for determination of clear wood properties.
The paper presents a new semi-destructive method for obtaining a prediction of the tension parallel to the grain properties of clear wood of structural timber members.
Ecogeographic variation in black spruce clear wood properties was investigated for the two main vegetation types of the managed boreal forest of the province of Quebec, Canada.
The sample is then cut lengthwise, with the slit length determined by the length of clear wood and diameter of the sample.
