Sixteen stands were harvested by either clearcut, shelterwood, group selection, or singletree selection methods. Three of the stands had uneven-aged structure. The other 13 were typical, matrJre, even-aged stands. Hmest intensity @roportion of basal area removed) ranged from 0.27 to 1 .@I. Hanrestcd sites were similar in slope, average diameter at breast height (DBH), and pre-harvest diamcte.r ...

The management of large carnivores in multi-use landscapes is always controversial, and managers need to balance a wide range of competing interests. Hunter harvest is often used to limit population size and distribution but is proving to be both controversial and technically challenging. Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) are currently managed as a game species in Norway. We describe an adaptive manage...

Area estimation is widely used in forestry applications and can greatly affect how forest land is managed. This study examined whether image attributes and interpreters affected area estimation and management activities used in forestry practices. Seven interpreters, chosen for this study, delineated stands on two different images of the same area. Results from these interpretations were then e...

Forest harvest planning and scheduling problem is an important part of forest resource management. It is a complex task requiring expertise and integration of multidisciplinary elds. We review mathematical programming as applied to forest harvesting problem. The review suggests that long term scheduling is diicult because of the prohibitive size of the model. Such long term scheduling allows on...

All studies were categorised according to the strength of the evidence based on the following revised classification system. Level I Evidence obtained from a systematic review of all relevant randomised controlled trials. Level II Evidence obtained from at least one properly designed randomised controlled trial. Level III.1 Evidence obtained from well designed pseudo-randomised controlled trial...

The importance of cassava has been realized as a high energy human food, animal feed and as an industrial raw material for sweeteners, ethanol and various other chemicals. Its industrial potential, however, has still not been tapped to any great extent. Broadening of the post-harvest utilization of cassava remains rather difficult due to several factors. The development of costand energy-effect...

this study setout to investigate the effect of wheat residue, tillage, and nitrogen fertilizer management on some agronomic traits of soybean as a split split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications. the main plots included wheat residue management: collecting and leaving residue and sub plot included tillage (without tillage and conventional tillage), and the sub...

Private landowners increasingly are asked to cooperate with landscape-level management to protect or enhance ecological resources. We examine the willingness of nonindustrial private forest owners in the Pacific Northwest (USA) to forego harvesting within riparian areas to improve riparian habitat. An empirical model is developed describing owners’ willingness to accept an economic incentive to...

The forest rotations problem has been considered by generations of economists (Fisher, 1930; Boulding, 1966; Samuelson, 1976). Traditionally, the forest resource across all future harvest periods is assumed to grow without memory of past harvest periods. This paper integrates economic theory and intertemporal ecological mechanics, linking current harvest decisions with future forest growth, fin...

| Environment and genotype a ect the composition, quality, storability and sensory properties of plant based-products. Visible-near infrared (NIR) spectral measurements is used increasingly to monitor fruit properties such as maturity, sensory properties and storability non-destructively both prior to harvest and during storage. To explore this problem, at harvest and after storage, visible-NIR...