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PROF. A. E. WACKERMAN, of Duke University, North Carolina, has produced a most useful text-book dealing with the harvesting of the timber crop in the United States. Many of the operations covered bf an engineering nature ; and these the author has correctly omitted as pertaining to the domain of the engineer, and also because the age-long methods to which the forester was so accustomed have changed during the past four decades to mechanical devices the designs of which are still changing and therefore would soon become out of date in a text-book. But principally the book has been written for students and to aid the instructor in presenting the harvesting problem in a logical manner. The author hopes that foresters will also find it useful.
Harvesting Tiber Crops
By Prof. A. B. Wackerman. (American Forestry Series.) Pp. xii+437. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1949.) 30s.
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STEBBING, E. Harvesting Timber in America. Nature 164, 1022 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641022a0
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