Conventional versus environmentally sound harvesting: Impacts on non-coniferous tropical veneer log and sawlog supplies

Unasylva

Volumn , Issue 193, 1998, Pages 23-30

  Pulkki, R E ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HARVESTING PRACTICE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVEST; TIMBER HARVESTING;

EID: 0031878987     PISSN: 00416436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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