A hand-held instrument used for measuring percent of trail grade. The user sights through the Clinometer to a reference (usually a second person) and reads the measurement directly from the internal scale. Found on http://www.americantrails.org/
Cli·nom'e·ter noun [ Greek kli`nein to incline + -meter .] (Geol.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/93
An instrument that is held at eye level to read stump height and merchantable or total height when standing 50 and 66 feet from the base of the tree. The difference between the two readings yields the height. Found on https://www.ncforestry.org/teachers/glossary-of-forestry-terms/