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Tree spiking of a birch in Sweden. Tree spiking involves hammering a metal rod, nail or other material into a tree trunk, either inserting it at the base of the trunk where a logger might be expected to cut into the tree, or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood.
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 ...
Logging slash can be chipped and used (for example) in the production of electricity or heat in cogeneration power-plants, [3] or simply burned onsite. [4] Where logging takes place on soft ground, loggers can use the branches and tops of trees as part of the timber-harvesting process to provide a track for forest machines. [5]
Illegal logging has taken a huge toll in recent years on the forest-covered southern half of the city of 9 million inhabitants. “They have finished off the forest,” Alfredo Gutiérrez, 43 ...
Early laboratory experiments with tobacco demonstrated that a plant’s natural defence mechanism can be activated by using light.
Salvage logging is the practice of logging trees in forest areas that have been damaged by wildfire, flood, severe wind, disease, insect infestation, ...
Tree sitting is a strategy that provides a high level of public attention since it is considered to be very dangerous and requires highly skilled police officers to evict the sitters. Tree sitting is often used as a stalling tactic, to prevent the cutting of trees while lawyers fight in the courts to secure the long-term victories.
[12] It is a holistic approach to plant management that focuses on a plant's interaction between living and nonliving components of the landscape. Typically, PHC is a service business that relies on the relationship between arborist and client to make management decisions based on the health of the tree, the goals of the client, and the ...