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Acknowledgement
First thank for our instructor Prof. Dr. Andreas Hamann helped me so much on developing this project, cleaning the data, and helping me analyzing the data. Thanks for my advisor Dr. Phil. Comeau, thanks for the NSERC and the Canadian Forest Service provide funding for my project, and thanks for the West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. provide scholarship for me, I appreciate all these very much.
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