Piddling around in dendromorphometry as a cure for insomnia
  Robert Leverett   Feb 20, 2007 10:51 PST    As the ENTS
gathering at Cook Forest SP nears, Gary Beluzo and I have been
polishing up our presentation on dendromorphometry - the art and
science of measuring trees in the field. Gary has been my silent
partner all along in dendromorphometry. He thought up the term.
Will and Jess are also partners, but they are spending their
time in the field these days doing critically important work.
That leaves me to stay at home and  In preparation for the
lecture at Cook (It may put all of us to sleep, so bring an
extra pillow), I've been searching for new formulas and
processes that can aid the tree measurer in practicing his/her
craft. Most of my forays into the world of trigonometry and
geometry fail to produce anything of real value. But on occasion
a formula pops out of an algebraic derivation that holds promise
for use in the field. The objective is to make our workhorse
formulas as computationally simple as