Excerpt from Processing Potential for Insect-Infected Front Range Forests The cost of removing and disposing of the dead and threatened timber was found to be higher than most owners could finance. The natural response was to seek ways to reduce this cost. To help meet the need, this study examined beetle killed trees, dead 5 years or less, their suitability for various products, and determined the properties that may affect or limit their use. The scope of the problem and the high cost of a definitive study of all character istics dictated that this study be confined to an ex ploratory evaluation. Also, the stands and individual trees for which there was a record of their year of death were extremely limited. As a consequence, the size of the sample for which the several variable characteristics of trees could be measured was unavoidably small. Results, therefore, do not necessar ily apply to other Front Range trees or forests even though reason suggests that similar characteristics might be found under like conditions. Results presented here are based on a more detailed report prepared by Tang and Troxell in Related studies on the amounts and kinds of raw materials potentially available (sampson, Betters, and Love 1980) and on the industrial capacity needed to utilize the wood (sampson, Betters, and Brenner 1980) are reported elsewhere. 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.