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...
Forest harvesting and transport operations lie on a near-optimal path for creating conflict. Thus their careful implementation is important not only for the sustainability of forests but also for the continuation of forestry as a profession. This paper summarises recent initiatives to reduce envi...
Dykstra, D.P.
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Heinrich, R.
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[Forest harvesting and transport: Old problems, new solutions]
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Forest harvesting and transport: Old problems, new solutions
In July 1996, with assistance from FAO, USAID, and the USDA Forest Service, CIFOR offered its first International Research Training Seminar on Reduced-Impact Timber Harvesting and Natural Forest Management. Participants were drawn from ten countries and represented disciplines ranging from silvic...
Putz, F.E.
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Elias
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Sist, P.
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Dykstra, D.P.
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Heinrich, R.
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[Research methods for reduced-impact logging: workshop results]
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Research methods for reduced-impact logging: workshop results
Putz, F.E.
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Romero, C.
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Heinrich, R.
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Merlo, F.
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[Seminario Internacional de Capacitacion en Investigacion Sobre Aprovechamiento Forestal de Impacto Reducido y Manejo de Bosques Naturales: Resultudos, Conception, 1-12 de Julio de 1997, Santa Cruz, Bolivia]
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Seminario Internacional de Capacitacion en Investigacion Sobre Aprovechamiento Forestal de Impacto Reducido y Manejo de Bosques Naturales: Resultudos, Conception, 1-12 de Julio de 1997, Santa Cruz, Bolivia