Meeting visual quality objectives with operational radial-strip partial cutting in coastal British Columbia: A post-harvest assessment

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-223

  Sheppard, Stephen ^a   Picard, Paul ^a   D'Eon, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b C21 ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Partial cutting; Simulation; VIA; Visual impact assessment; Visual quality objective; VQO

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COSTS; ECOLOGY; EXTRACTION; TIMBER;

TIMBER EXTRACTION; VISUAL QUALITY;

HARVESTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 3042519438     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc80215-2     Document Type: Article

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