enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Heli-logging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heli-logging

    Tandem-rotor helicopter lifting a log Helicopter pruning. Heli-logging, or helicopter logging, is a method of logging that uses helicopters to remove cut trees from forests by lifting them on cables attached to a helicopter. [1] Helicopter logging is often used in inaccessible areas of forests. Because the use of helicopters reduces the level ...

  3. Variable retention - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_retention

    In some cases helicopters take the logs out. The use of the helicopters avoid the need to build logging roads inside the forest and hence avoid the disturbance of the forest floor. Yet, helicopter logging is less fuel efficient than truck use. Some logging operations that use variable retention try to emulate forest disturbances. In those cases ...

  4. Logging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logging

    Logging is the beginning of a supply chain that provides raw material for many products societies worldwide use for housing, construction, energy, and consumer paper products. Logging systems are also used to manage forests, reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore ecosystem functions, [2] though their efficiency for these purposes has been ...

  5. BARK (organization) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BARK_(organization)

    U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez ruled that, contrary to BARK's claim, the Forest Service did study alternative methods of extracting trees, including helicopter logging. The Forest Service did acknowledge during the argument that an additional 19 tons of sediment would be deposited into streams around the area. [15]

  6. List of helicopter airlines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_airlines

    Forestry – heli-logging, stream restoration Freight – aerial crane , airdrop ; general cargo and mail delivery in remote areas Industrial – construction, inspection and maintenance of overhead power lines , pipelines, mobile phone towers, offshore wind farms, hydropower facilities, and other infrastructure

  7. Talk:Heli-logging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Heli-logging

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

    projects.huffingtonpost.com/moral-injury/the...

    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...

  9. Coulson Aviation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulson_Aviation

    The company's operations included helicopter logging, forest fire suppression, power-line construction, airliner passenger, transport, and other industrial heavy lift operations. Coulson Aviation (USA) Inc. is a subsidiary of Coulson Aircrane Ltd. Coulson Aviation contract rotary and fixed-wing aircraft to Australia and the US from Canada.