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http://dx.doi.org/10.7747/JFS.2011.27.3.8

Optimal Landing Location and Skid Trail Network Selection in Timber Harvesting Area  

Ji, Byoung-Yun (Forest Practice Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Oh, Jae-Heun (Forest Practice Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Park, Sang-Jun (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
Hwang, Jin-Sung (Dept. of Forest Management, Graduate School, Kangwon University)
Cha, Du-Song (Dept. of Forest Management, Kangwon University)
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Journal of Forest and Environmental Science / v.27, no.3, 2011 , pp. 195-203 More about this Journal
Abstract
Forest in the our country is in the age that needs positive operation in order to foster economical forest. Multiple operations for making valuable forest should be conducted steadily and timely from afforestation to harvesting. In order to execute these kinds of forest operations, the construction of skid trail network that can be effectively used as a pathway for forestry machine and working space is necessary. To investigate facility effect of skid trail network, we executed the location of skid trail network through centroid method by GIS for 50ha of harvesting workplace in mechanized model forest located in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province. As a result of this research, skid trail density in this area changed from 79m/ha with current method to 42m/ha with improved method. It appeared that skid trail density with improved method is nearly half of current method even though the cutting area is the same as the current cutting area. Also, skidding distance changed from 117m with current method to 57m with improved method. It appears that skidding distance with improved method is nearly half of current method even though cutting area was enlarged in adjacent tending cutting area.
Keywords
Forest operation; Skid trail network; GIS; Road density; Skidding distance;
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