News Articles - Environment

New research results - How do timber harvesting guidelines affect the productivity of logging machines?
2018-02-22 10:10:11

Timber harvesting guidelines are often developed and implemented to protect environmental values and maintain site productivity. This research investigated the affects of these harvesting guidelines on the productivity of felling and skidding machines.

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Motor-manual versus mechanised operations - which is better for thinning in pine plantations?
2018-02-22 09:43:54

The site impacts, including residual tree damage, of two harvesting systems were evaluated and compared.

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Logging and road best management practices manual for protecting water quality
2018-02-22 09:30:32

The Maine Department of Conservation – Forest Service has a free-for-download publication that recommends best practices for protecting water quality in forests.

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Investigating the effect of our logging activities on soil erosion and sedimentation
2018-02-22 09:00:27

An article in the New Zealand Journal of Forestry discusses the current situation in New Zealand.

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Has reduced-impact logging outlived its usefulness?
2018-02-22 08:38:38

This is the question posed by Dennis Dykstra in the latest issue of the Journal of Tropical Forest Science.

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Forestry and Society - Responding to Global Drivers of Change
2018-02-22 08:31:00

This IUFRO and WFSE publication has sections which we as loggers should take note of.

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Forest Footprint Disclosure
2018-02-22 08:29:10

A new initiative called Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD) helps companies and investors look at how their products or supply chains cause possible deforestation of indigenous forests.

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Best management practices for machine operators working in riparian forests
2018-02-21 16:49:41

FPInnovations provides information for sensitive terrain harvesting.

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