THE AUTHOR 



JAMES L. FAUROT is an Associate Professor at the School of 

 Forestry, University of Montana, Missoula. His early 

 work was involved mainly in the area of forest engineer- 

 ing. More recently he has moved into the mensurational- 

 silvicultural aspects of second-growth timber management. 



. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The author thanks Champion Timberlands, a division of 

 Champion International Corporation, for supplying the data 

 from which the tables were prepared; and more specifically, 

 Robert Symes, Procurement Manager, who meticulously col- 

 lected the data. Patricia Andrews, Intermountain Station, 

 deserves special credit for her efforts in developing, under 

 severe time constraints, the fundamental computer programs 

 that were required for the project. Michael Marsden,. statis- 

 tician, Intermountain Station, also contributed significantly to 

 the development and evaluation of statistical procedures used 

 in this work. 



The project was funded jointly by the Montana Forest and 

 Conservation Experiment Station and the USDA Forest Service, 

 Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, 

 Utah. 



