Height and crown width related to diameter for open-grown western hemlock and Sitka spruce

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Abstract
Data from 157 open-grown Sitka (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) and 102 western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) at two locations in coastal Alaska [Alaska] and from 69 Sitka spruce on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia were used to develop height-diameter and crown width-diameter equations. Height-diameter relations for Sitka spruce were significantly different among all locations. Crown width-diameter relations were not significantly different. Common equations were fit to the spruce data and to the spruce and hemlock data independent of location and site index along the coast.