Easy question: What's 'DBH?'

[kevinz]

Sorry, newbie without professional training. What's 'dbh' stand for? Used as a measure of how big a tree is. Guessing that it's something about a diameter of the main stem or trunk at some point. Tried searching for 'dbh' and got too many hits; 'dbh and definition' didn't find me anything.

Thanks in advance.

-Kevin

 

[Tim Walsh]

DBH Diameter at Breast Height which is taken at

4.5 feet = 1.3716 meter

 

[kevinz]

Thanks so much, Tim.

I wouldn't have guessed that one.

-Kevin

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

O'ld forrestry measurment so that there was a somewhat reasonable way to compare stock.

I've been told that this was used because that is where the majority old trees lost thier taper and usable saw wood comes in.

 

[Reed]

As an 'ol Forest Service employee, I thought it meant:

Diameter at where your Boobies Hit.

(that worked okay until we went co-ed....I still thought it worked well, but they didn't. No humor anymore).