ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES in rocky mountain coniferous ...

management objectives. Harvesting systems, utilization levels, and post-harvest
treatments that can achieve the selected treatment effects are applied. Finally,
technical and economic feasibility is evaluated, and the environmental and manage-
ment consequences of tested alternatives are determined. A central concern, of
course, is to apply and test harvesting alternatives that have the capability of
recovering much of the wood material commonly left on-si te as residue. For
comparative purposes, the effects of various levels o f intensive utilization are
compared to observed effects of conventional sawlog utilization and post-harvest
residue disposal practices.
EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL
AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
IF~
RESOURCE rlANAGEMENT I
I OBJECTIVES AND PRESCRIPTIONS I
INVENTORY AND PREDICTION
TOTAL AVAILABLE WOOD FIBER RESOURCE
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PRODUCT ALTERNATIVES
AND UTILIZATION STANDARDS
+ *,
EVALUATION OF HARVESTING AND
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
FACILITATING UTILIZATION
EVALUATION OF EFFECTS ON
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THE FOREST (+ and -)
-- environment
-- user values
+
-- future management
TECHNICAL CONSEQUENCES
ALTERNATIVES ECONOMIC ECOLOGICAL
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Figure 2.--The Program has emphasized developing and testing harvesting
and ut.i.Zizat.i.on aZternatives that are eompatibZe with, and facili-
tate, totaZ forest resource management on the site.