Small-Scale Timber Harvesting: Mule Logging in Hyrcanian Forest

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-262

  Jourgholami, Meghdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuelwood; Productive mule hours; Pulpwood; Sawn lumber; Skidding; Wood hauling model

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOREGION; HAULAGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

IRAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860920306     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-011-9174-y     Document Type: Article

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