Abstract Purpose of Review Ground-based mechanized forest operations can cause severe
soil disturbances that are often long lasting and detrimental to the health of forested …

Abstract Purpose of Review One of the challenges of forest operations is to consider the
consequences of different management strategies and to estimate the economic …

The goal of this research was to examine the mitigating effect of brush mats on soil
disturbance caused by off-road traffic of forest machinery, specifically how brush quantity …

Abstract Purpose of Review Mechanized logging operations with ground-based equipment
commonly represent European production forestry but are well-known to potentially cause …

Factors affecting soil disturbance caused by harvester and forwarder were studied on mid-
grained soils in Finland. Sample plots were harvested using a one-grip harvester. The …

Sažetak Forest soils in Northern Europe are generally trafficked by forest machinery on
several occasions during a forest rotation. This may create ruts (wheel tracks), which could …

Predictive factors for forwarder rut formation were studied on fine-grained mineral soils. The
study was carried out in southern Finland in mid-May, when the soil water contents were …

Sažetak Ground-based mechanized forest operations often lead to increased runoff and soil
loss on unbound forest roads and machine operating trails, which in turn can impede the …

We quantified the effectiveness of different soil protective mat compositions (brush, sawdust,
combination of brush and sawdust) and densities (light density of 10 kg m− 2 and heavy …

This article introduces and evaluates a Soil Trafficability Model (STRAM) designed to
estimate and forecast potential rutting depth on forest soils due to heavy machine traffic. This …