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Anybody who has bought a lovely Christmas tree, only to find you can’t get it through the door will tell you, it’s important to measure things. But tape measures aren’t always practical and are easily ...

For much of the past 100 years, forest measurement techniques changed very little, and to take accurate measurements from a sufficient number of sample plots is inevitably labour intensive. Typically ...

The length of an object is the distance from one end to the other. Height measures how tall an object is. You can measure lengths or heights using centimetres and metres. The height of a plant would ...

A swamp chestnut oak tree in Jennings County has been recognized as the largest of the species in the country by the National ...