Economics of harvesting to maintain high structural diversity and resulting damage to residual trees

Western Journal of Applied Forestry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-142

  Hartsough, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Harvesting costs; Thinning; Tree damage

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY;

TREE DAMAGE;

HARVESTING;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; HARVESTING; SAW LOGS; THINNING; TREES;

EID: 0037388055     PISSN: 08856095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wjaf/18.2.133     Document Type: Article

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