Despite abundant evidence that both the environment damage and the financial costs of logging can be reduced substantially by training workers, pre-planning skid trails, practicing directional felling, and carrying out a variety of other well-known forestry practices, destructive logging is still...
Although reduced-impact logging (RIL) techniques are well known and generally endorsed by tropical foresters, rates of adoption of RIL by loggers have been less than encouraging. The principal impediment to proper planning of logging operations, training and supervision of forest workers, and the...
Applegate, G.
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Putz, F.E.
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Snook, L.K.
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[Who pays for and who benefits from improved timber harvesting practices in the tropics?: lessons learned and information gaps]
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Who pays for and who benefits from improved timber harvesting practices in the tropics?: lessons learned and information gaps
Despite the challenges and deficiencies tropical forest research faces, it has never had so much power as now. Foresters rely on new approaches to stimulate a change in the way forest is used for a more sustainable management system. In addition, new legislation and international agreements on fo...
Putz, F.E.
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[El manejo de los bosques tropicales: retos, deficiencias y oportunidades]
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El manejo de los bosques tropicales: retos, deficiencias y oportunidades
When the goal of natural forest management is to maintain the biodiversity and ecological integrity of the forest while harvesting timber, the silvicultural systems employed must promote timber production and reduce negative impacts on whole timber resources. To foster development of such a syste...
Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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Rumíz, D.
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Guzmán, R.
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Jardim, A.
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[Ecological characterization of tree species for guiding forest management decision in seasonally dry forests in Lomerío, Bolivia]
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Ecological characterization of tree species for guiding forest management decision in seasonally dry forests in Lomerío, Bolivia
Between 1992 and 1997, about 2400 ha of old growth dipterocarp forest in southeastern Sabah was logged to reduced-impact logging (RIL) guidelines as part of a pilot carbon offset project. Harvesting planning, vine cutting, directional felling and skidding restrictions contributed to a reduction i...
Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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Tay, J.
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[Lessons learned from the implementation of reduced-impact logging in hilly terrain in Sabah, Malaysia]
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Lessons learned from the implementation of reduced-impact logging in hilly terrain in Sabah, Malaysia
Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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Tay, J.
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Sullivan, T.E.
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[Creating timber harvest guidelines for a reduced-impact logging project in Malaysia]
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Creating timber harvest guidelines for a reduced-impact logging project in Malaysia
Marsh, C.W.
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Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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Sullivan, T.
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[Reduced-impact logging: a pilot project in Sabah, Malaysia]
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Reduced-impact logging: a pilot project in Sabah, Malaysia
Pinard, M.A.
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Putz, F.E.
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[Vine infestation of large remnant trees in logged forest in Sabah, Malaysia: biomechanical facilitation in vine succession]
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Vine infestation of large remnant trees in logged forest in Sabah, Malaysia: biomechanical facilitation in vine succession