Timber Harvesting Articles & Analysis
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Forestry management is among these, employing LiDAR to assess tree crown health, create terrain maps, estimate timber volume, and perform numerous other tasks. This article discusses the use of LiDAR for practical forestry, as it is a critical field on which many species of flora and fauna on Earth and humans largely depend. ...
They employ a team of professional foresters and certified timber harvesters that can help harvest both private and public timber lots. ...
Globally, 50-90 percent of the timber harvested in tropical countries can be attributed to illegal logging. In Ghana, where the study took place, illegal logging accounts for an estimated 80 percent of timber extraction. Overall, the researchers noted, the rate of deforestation in Ghana is six times the maximum sustainable rate. ...
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Some of the issues include: Abuse of the Forest Source Document system (DOF): The DOF tracks and cross checks timber harvested from a forest operation against the volume of timber approved by the government under the forest management plan. As loggers extract timber, the DOF deducts the volume as “timber ...
Tropical deforestation in Asia is driven primarily by the fast-growing demand for timber and increasingly by the expansion of oil palm plantations for fuel. ...
This means that the lion’s share, some 88 percent of the world timber harvest, comes from natural forest stands. Projections of future growth show that plantations can sometimes be profitably established on already deforested, often degraded, land, but they can also come at the expense of existing forests. ...
Soil temperature, moisture, pH, depth to bedrock, and organic matter content were also measured to examine relationships between FCO2 and soil properties. Timber harvesting resulted in large changes in FCO2 that varied with time since harvest. Immediately following harvest (year 0) FCO2 in gaps increased by ∼55%, declined ...
The lake is highly productive – the annual fish catch from the Lake is estimated at between about 180,00–250,000 tonnes while the dai fishery on Tonle Sap River annually harvests about 12,000 tonnes of fish migrating from the lake to the Mekong River early in the dry season. ...
We investigate how the distribution of North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in the boreal mixedwood forest is influenced by anthropogenically (forest harvest) and naturally (forest fire) derived landscape structure. We studied the presence and absence of red squirrels over two years in three landscape types: one managed for timber ...
An increasing awareness of this problem has led to thecreation of riparian strips to shade streams when timber is harvested or prescribed burns are undertaken. The challenge is to know how much shade is needed, and how large to make the ...