Excerpt from Log Prices in Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon, 1963-73 Log grades are defined in the Official log scaling and grading rules adopted jointly by the six log scaling and grading bureaus operating from northern California northward to Puget Sound and the Canadian border. These rules were developed in Oooperation with forest products industry and various public forestry agencies. For Douglas-fir, three Peeler grades, a Special Mill grade, and four Sawmill grades are used. Other species generally have one Peeler, one Special Mill, and four Sawmill grades.3/ The No. 4 Sawmill grade was introduced in 1972; it covers logs of less than 6 inches in diameter or of less than 50 board feet net volume and suitable for the manufacture of not less than 33 1/ 3 percent of the gross volume in merchantable material. In addition, the Industrial Forestry Association reports prices of Utility, Special Cull, and Cull logs, but these are not included in this report. Originally, Peeler grades were intended to designate logs of high quality most suited for manufacture into veneer for plywood. However, construction-type plywood now uses many logs in the Sawmill grades, and frequently some Peeler grade logs are sawn into lumber. However, the Peeler log grades still generally serve to indi cate logs with premium characteristics and, hence, higher values. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.