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Bill Cook ESCANABA — Loggers, foresters, and wood mills use specialized units of measurement to describe wood in both standing trees and cut forest products. Cords, boards, MBF, bolts, and tons are a few of the more common terms. Obtaining market-suitable volumes from tapered, irregular cylinders pose geometrical and processing challenges. Tree stems come in a variety of shapes, tapers, diameters, lengths, and other size elements. Trees are not uniform in their geometry. Forest management, ...

Revamping Federal Climate Science December 15, 2020, 5:00 am Getty/Liu Shiping/Xinhua Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Introduction and summary The United States has been the global leader in climate science for decades. Unfortunately, progress has slowed—and in some cases, even moved backward—over the past four years, with the Trump administration dismantling core elements of the federal climate science apparatus. As the country and the planet head toward an increasingly unstable climate, the U...