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Stumpage Reports
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Thursday, June 19, 2003 :::
A Real Stumpage Report
The original title of this blog fluctuated between "Red Means Run Son" and "I Was Lying In A Burned Out Basement," both lines from Neil Young songs. I don't remember if I called it "Stumpage Reports" for awhile, or just used the phrase, but ever-clever James suggested it as a title and it stuck. I remember at that time I was considering using the title Hookworm Statistics. Thank you James.
Here is an image of an actual, real, true stumpage report. Image hosting courtesy of Michael.
A stumpage report is simply a little piece of paper. The guy on the truck hauling the logs out of the forest filled out the stumpage reports so they knew how much to pay the people who owned the forest. This one has a little note on the bottom, so I posted this example because it is a lot more interesting. I've also found stumpage reports written on index cards, special stumpage report forms, and scrap paper. There are also cutting records, log tallies, and cutting unit fact sheets. Some of them seem pretty similiar to me, but they ended up in different sub-series in the particular collection I'm working. I'd explain that but I don't feel like lecturing on archival principles and theory and I know damn well you don't want to read about it.
Working on this collection, I also learned when you measure trees during a timber cruise (long before a stumpage reports appears on the scene), you measure the trees DBH. That's Diameter at Breast Height for all you city folk out there.
Here's a cool as shit web site.
Quote of the Day:
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
--- John Brown, U.S. abolitionist. Last statement, written on the day of his execution, Dec. 2, 1859.
::: posted by tom at 1:52 AM
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