Folks,
My Thanksgiving came early this year when I received a gift from two of our Advisory Council members in North Carolina a few weeks ago. It’s a Biltmore Stick – an old one! Never heard of it before but it’s about as cool as can be. Our professional forestry friends are probably quite familiar with it.
The stick can estimate the total board feet, tonnage, and cubic feet of a tree. All you need to do is to measure a tree’s diameter and height and use the chart (which is on the stick itself) to calculate all that.
For the record, you measure the diameter (DBH-Diameter at Breast Height or 4.5 feet) by holding the stick up an arm’s length away from the tree. You measure the height by standing 66 feet away from the base of the tree and triangulating.
The stick is long-ish so I took one picture of it on the top of a car to show that. (It was “fun” to pack when I came back to Haiti.) Folks here will be delighted. Thank you to Joel and Elizabeth!
Michael Anello
Executive Director
