Soil disturbance and quantification of machine traffic soil compaction associated with pushover logging

Pushover logging is a timber harvest system that involves pushing over trees with an excavator, thereby cantilevering the tree roots out of the soil. Pushover logging has the potential to cause above average levels of soil disturbance because of the soil disturbance associated with the uprooting...

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Main Author: Redfern, Lawrence Stacey
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7988