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The Timber
Measurement Society
The Timber
Measurement Society is made up of log scalers and timber cruisers.
Currently there are three chapters in the Western US: the Cal-Vada
district (California), Intermountain (East of the Cascade Mountains,
all of the Rocky Mountain and Black Hills areas), and the Cascade
district (West of the Cascade Mountains north of California). District
meetings are held in the Spring, with the Main body (the Central
Committee) holding its meeting in the fall. Meetings are typically
two-day meetings with relevant speakers, timber measurement workshops
and presentations. Currently
the goal of the organization is
to inform
and educate the membership of relevant information and to promote
uniform measurement of timber primarily in North America, however,
we do have members and participaton from around the world and would like to have more.
Anyone interested in starting a chapter outside of the current regions
is encouraged to contact the secretariat with a proposal. All people
with an interest in the measurrement of timber are invited to become
members. Contact the
Timber
Measurement Society.
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The Timber
Measurement
Society will hold the 2008 Central Meeting at Harrahs Resort in Reno
Nevada on October 28-29, 2008. You can already make your reservations at
Harrah's by calling 1.888.726.6311. The code for the $59/night rate is
"S10UN". If you have any questions, would like to make agenda
recommendations or would like to present, please feel free to contact
the TMS secretariat via email (click here for email addresses).
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Hoo Hoo Club/Intermountain Timber Measurement Society meeting held in Colville, Washington 27-28 March, 2008
The Timber Measurements Society Intermountain
District teamed up with the NEW Hoo Hoo Club for their 43rd
Annual Scaling School on March 27-28th, 2008. The meeting was attended by 45 scalers from the region. To veiw the minutes of the meeting click here.
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Timber Measurement Society held their Fall Meeting
in Longview/Kelso, Washington, 17-18 October, 2007; Expert
Speakers from four countries (Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, US) gave presentations on measuring logs and trees.
The meeting
attracted more than 70 attendees. Topics ranged from methods of Scaling logs
in Sweden, New Zealand (3-D, JAS) automated log scaling and tree length
merchandizing, programs for reducing financial loss from logging damage, insect
pests and timber, NWLRAG scaling procedures for oversize knots and frost
cracks, the newest techniques and equipment for cruising, scaling accuracy
under artificial light conditions, and loss of lumber recovery and quality from
sweep and oval logs. The second day included a scaling and cruising field
trip. To view the minutes, all of the presentations and photos from the
meeting, go to the Longview
meeting page to view the
presentations.
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Intermountain meeting, Coeur d'
Alene, Idaho, 4-5 April, 2007
The
meeting was a big success with 71 log scaling and cruising
professionals from the Western US and Canada representing
industry, government and tribal agencies. More
information copies of the presentations, photos, etc. and the
minutes of the meeting are available by clicking here.
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Central Committee meeting,
Medford, Oregon, 18-19 October, 2006
The Timber
Measurement Society, Central Committee held its Central
meeting on October 18 -19 in Medford Oregon.
There was a
full day of presentations, a business meeting and
a log roll-out. Forty three measurements proffessionals were
in
attendance. To learn more about the meeting, see photos of the event
and view many of the presentations click here.
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- Minutes
of the Central Committee, Timber Measurement Society, October 18-19,
2006, Medford, Oregon
- Minutes
of the meeting and photo-journal of the Intermountain District, Timber
Measurement Society,
April 5-6, 2006, Columbia Falls, Montana
- Minutes
of the Central Committee, Timber Measurement Society, October 13-14,
2005, Post Falls, Idaho
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TMS Central Committee Officers and Contacts
Chairman: Matt Fonseca
Matthew.Fonseca@unece.org
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updated on 2007-04-07 |
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