Timber harvesting is a common activity on many small woodland
properties. Whether a harvest is large or small, landowners
must carefully evaluate their overall goals and objectives before
beginning. A well-conducted harvest will help realize those
goals, but a poor job may lead to disappointing results that have to
be...
Procedures are developed for integrating short-term,
area-based plans with long-term, strata-based harvest
schedules. These procedures were tested on a 4000 hectare
tract of forest land in British Columbia. It is shown that
a combination of these two approaches to forest planning
provides a spatially feasible short-term solution that is
also...
On-the-ground harvest unit layout, especially in skyline-thinning operations, is critical to meeting multiple resource objectives of the land manager and maintaining the economic viability of the timber harvesting operator. This phase of an operation can optimize the layout and harvesting of a sale or unit. Detailed layout by a knowledgeable...
Young Douglas-fir stands were commercially thinned to achieve vegetation- and wildlife-related objectives. Harvesting and forwarding production and costs were compared among three mechanized thinning treatments: light thin [(115 residual trees per acre (tpa)], light thin with 0.5-ac openings (92 residual tpa), and heavy thin (53 residual tpa). The sites were...
