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Appropriate Small-scale Forest Harvesting Technologies for Southeast Asia: Manual Downhill Drifting

Steep-slope harvesting probably poses the biggest challenges in forest harvesting throughout the world. Traditionally, on slopes above 30 percent, gravitational transport is applied in manual harvesting operations by simply sliding logs downhill.

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0000000232
Publisher
RECOFTC
Publication format
Training manual or guide
Geographic focus
Regional
Series collection
ForInfo
Editors
RECOFTC
Topics
Community / social forestry
Forest & landscape management / restoration
Livelihoods (NTFPs/agroforestry/PES)
Copyright
Copyright © RECOFTC December 2015
RECOFTC’s work is made possible with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Government of Sweden.

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