Forest Harvesting Forest Nutrition and Research Trials to Assess Long-term Forest Productivity

Dr Elaine M. Birk - 1994

There is increasing concern world wide regarding the long-term viability of managed forest ecosystem.

Forests are the focus of broad-ranging environmental concerns including global change, alternative sources of fuel, biodiversity, water quality, soil degradation and sustainable productivity.

Whilst forests are accepted as a source of wood-based products and fibre for fuels, harvesting operations are simultaneously viewed as undesirable, environmentally damaging and unsustainable.

These conflicts are common in developed countries around the world; the environmental opposition to forest operations is strong and there are large gaps in our knowledge as to the long-term consequences of harvesting at local, regional and global levels.

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