Article ID: | iaor20042124 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 738 |
End Page Number: | 751 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
Journal: | Forest Science |
Authors: | Weintraub A., Caro F., Constantino M., Martins I. |
Keywords: | heuristics |
Because of environmental concerns, modern forest harvesting plans are being modified to address aesthetics and wildlife protection issues. In the literature, the most referenced are adjacency constraints with exclusion or ‘greenup’ years. Also of interest are the concepts of old growth patch size and total old growth area restrictions. Typically, harvest blocks have been defined