Introduction: Seacoast areas and small islands have strategic meaning in building the nation prospering its people. This is because of wealth natural resources contained this region, both biological non-biological. However, has not been utilized optimally, which partly due to sectoral egos between government agencies.Purposes Research: To determine impact abrasion from activities fast boats wit...

This paper discusses the impacts of conflicts emanating from competing natural resource use and poverty eradication strategies around protected and mining areas in Tanzania. Case studies of various protected areas are used to demonstrate the nature and extent of conflicts emerging from changing demographic conditions, land use competition and globalisation pressures. Such conflicts often occur ...

SWIM, L.W., JR., ELLIOTT, K.J., OTTMAR, R.D., and VIHNANEK , R.E. 1993. Site preparation burning to improve southern Appalachian pine-hardwood stands: fire characteristics and soil erosion, moisture, and temperature. Can. J. For. Res. 23: 2242-2254. Three southern Appalachian stands with sparse and unproductive pine-hardwood overstories and dense Kalmia latifolia L. understories were treated to...

An experiment has been conducted to evaluate the additional dose reduction by clear felling contaminated forestry in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, and using the timber to cover the areas with wood chips. A portable gamma spectrometry system, comprising a backpack containing a 3 × 3″ NaI(Tl) detector with digital spectrometer and GPS receiver, has been used to map dose rate and radionuclide activ...

There is an intense debate about the effects of postfire salvage logging versus nonintervention policies on regeneration of forest communities, but scant information from experimental studies is available. We manipulated a burned forest area on a Mediterranean mountain to experimentally analyze the effect of salvage logging on bird-species abundance, diversity, and assemblage composition. We us...

The results obtained in this article relate to the scientific and technological development of timber industry. main idea is based on possibility concentrating several forest plots designated for felling with different percentages cut components within a single cutting area. On logging site created way, skidding trails were laid, allowing entire range operations be carried out. shape such combi...

Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve (MMFR) in Peninsular Malaysia is under systematic management since 1902 and still considered as the best managed mangrove forest in the world. The present study on silvimetrics assessed the ongoing MMFR forest management, which includes a first thinning after 15 years, a second thinning after 20 years and clear-felling of 30-year old forest blocks, for its efficie...

Agroforestry or agricultural forestry is an important resource for the exploitation of wood resources commonly based on a low level mechanization and integrating agriculture crops land-management. areas consist often buffer strip forest along farms’ boundaries small stands within same farms. Felling use chainsaws which are used occasionally, aged models with little maintenance done them. In thi...