Distribution of Animal-Powered Logging for Timber Harvesting in Hungarian State-Owned Forests

Malatinszky, Ákos; Ficsor, Csilla

doi:10.3390/iecf2022-13514

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“…The literature on animal skidding suggests it has important ecological and economic advantages in certain conditions [72]. Pre-skidding (bunching) of processed roundwood by oxen represents the extensive way of timber harvesting that achieves benefits through: (1) reduced damage on the soil, seedlings, and remaining trees after felling, which is important in selective forest management systems in order to protect the regeneration gaps [16,58,72,73]; (2) greater productivity of the skidder due to the previously bunched roundwood along the built skid roads [74]; and (3) absence of the need to build a dense secondary network in the context of cost reduction, but also subsequent erosion processes [75]. Therefore, skidding by oxen represents a suitable method in: (a) forests of protected nature areas, where low felling intensity is used and where there are no skid roads; (b) areas where the use of machinery is prohibited for environmental protection reasons (water protection zones); and (c) in commercial forests where the construction of skid roads is expensive or there is a high risk of erosion processes.…”

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“…The different technologies used for timber extraction caused different levels of damage to standing trees, soil physical characteristics, and forest regeneration [8,30,[48][49][50][51][52][53]. Animal logging caused less damage to residual trees [1,[54][55][56], regeneration [16,55,57], and topsoil [58] and less soil disturbance [59] than mechanized logging.…”

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Damages of Skidder and Oxen Logging to Residual Trees in Uneven-Aged Mixed Forest

Knežević

Musić

Halilović

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Forests

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The negative influence of timber harvesting on the forest environment is reflected through damage to the residual trees, regeneration, and forest soil. Considering that skidding, a popular extraction method, can cause substantial and severe damage to the remaining stand, the aim of this research was to determine damage to residual trees during skidding by an LKT 81T cable skidder, including oxen bunching. The research was conducted in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in an uneven-aged mixed fir (Abies alba Mill.) and spruce (Picea abies L.) forest with pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) on limestone soils. Tree felling was conducted using a Husqvarna 372 XP chainsaw. Extraction operations caused damage to 6.31% of the residual trees in the stand. The most damage was “removed bark” (65.34%) and occurred on the lower parts of the tree, the butt end (55.11%) and root collar (32.39%). The average size of the damage was 197.08 cm2. A statistically significant correlation was found between the damage position and the diameter at the breast height (p < 0.05) and the damage position and damage size (p < 0.01) by Spearman correlation analysis. The conducted analysis by the chi-squared test showed that there is a statistically significant difference in the proportion of damage for trees with different distances to the nearest skid road (p = 0.0487), but the share of damaged trees did not decrease by increasing the distance from the skid road.

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Damages of Skidder and Oxen Logging to Residual Trees in Uneven-Aged Mixed Forest

Knežević

Musić

Halilović

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Forests

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“…Hungary, for instance, more than a quarter of all forest districts still rely on this centuries-old technique (Malatinszky and Ficsor 2016). This is one reason for Hungary's high labour intensity in forestry (Eurostat 2018), a fact that degrowth endorses.…”

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Growing Trees for a Degrowth Society: An Approach to Switzerland's Forest Sector

Creutzburg¹

2022

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Forests are under immense stress globally. Economic growth is one reason for this: its impacts can lead to deforestation and put tremendous harvesting pressure on forests. In light of increasingly popular – and growth-based – bioeconomy strategies, the need for more wood is likely to accelerate. Degrowth, in contrast, rejects economic growth as the central economic principle, arguing that the material throughput of countries in the Global North must shrink to achieve global sustainability. Although the concept has gained importance, there have been no attempts to link degrowth with the forest sector. This article argues that degrowth principles are beneficial for basing the forest sector on sustainable grounds, while the degrowth movement also needs to define its relationship to the forest. Against this backdrop, this contribution sets the cornerstone by linking the Swiss forest sector to central degrowth principles, and discussing possible interrelations and mismatches. Finally, a future research agenda for degrowth and the forest sector is presented.

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Distribution of Animal-Powered Logging for Timber Harvesting in Hungarian State-Owned Forests

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Damages of Skidder and Oxen Logging to Residual Trees in Uneven-Aged Mixed Forest

Damages of Skidder and Oxen Logging to Residual Trees in Uneven-Aged Mixed Forest

Growing Trees for a Degrowth Society: An Approach to Switzerland's Forest Sector

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