Forest statistics for the Piedmont of North Carolina, 1984

Multiresource Inventories: Woody Biomass in North Carolina

“…) for trees 5.0 inches and larger in diameter at breast height (d.b.h. ), Recently prepared statistical reports for North Carolina focus primarily on volume of growing-stock timber measured to these standards (Bechtold 1985;Craver 1985;Davenport 1984;Hutchins 1985; Sheffield and Knight 1986;Tansey 1984). Because of the growing interest in woody biomass as a source of energy, however, the additional amount of wood and bark in all trees on timberland and the total wood and bark biomass on reserved timberland and woodland and nonforest areas must be analyzed.…”