GPHY 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clearcutting, Cable Logging, Skyline Logging
24 Dec 2016
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Forest harvesting involves several different steps and processes: each step requires different approaches, technologies, and equipment depending on the step and geographical consideration. Planning forest inventories, tenure agreements, areas of concern, logging infrastructure & transportation, consultations. Cutting different size and types of trees, types of forests, different harvesting methods, terrain considerations, aoc. Transportation two different areas to consider: transport in and out of forests, transport from forest to processing facilities. Provincial governments control most of forested land within canada: they enforce regulations and ensure values within areas of concern (aoc) are upheld. Planning can include buffers (uncut areas) around sensitive areas: environmental nesting areas, protection of species/habitats, social heritage sites, aboriginal land, recreational land. Tree harvesting can be designed to perform other functions asides from just timber: improve forest health, ecological wildlife and plant species selection, forest access hikers, hunters, recreational. There are two generalized approaches to harvesting timber: clear-cutting, partial cutting.
