The impact of forest management operations on soil physical properties is important to
understand, since management can significantly change site productivity by altering root …

The degree and extent of soil compaction, which may reduce productivity of forest soils, is
believed to vary by the type of harvesting system, and a field-based study was conducted to …

Ground-based skidding can have detrimental effects on soil properties trough soil profile
disturbance and compaction that can persist for decades. We investigated the recovery of …

Multiple entries into forest stands are often needed for fire hazard reduction and ecosystem
restoration treatments in the Inland-Northwest USA region. However, soil compaction …

The productive potential of plantations together with the expansion of the pulp and paper
industry in the region prompted a broadly based program of research and development in …

Soil productivity is essential to the sustained production of forest ecosystem goods and
services. Timber harvests may lead to negative ecological impacts to the soil environment …

Physical subsoil constraints can originate from natural or anthropic processes, and some of
them can be reduced, avoided, corrected and/or predicted by the land use practices applied …

The effects of machinery and livestock on forest soil compaction have mostly been studied at
short-term and local scales. A better understanding of the long-term effects of compaction in …

The aim of this study was to evaluate skidding techniques, which result in minimal damage
to the soil, depending on the slope and stand type. Thus, three skidding techniques with …

There has been much concern that traffic associated with the harvesting of intensively
managed pine plantations reduces long‐term soil‐site productivity. Trafficking, especially …