Harvesting:
Harvesting the wood fuel from the forest or the short rotation plantation. Steps in harvesting include felling, chipping, extraction to road side. The chipping can be carried out either in the stand or at the roadside.
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- Harvesting of Short Rotation Coppice Willow.
- Harvesting wood for energy from early first thinnings.
- Harvesting wood for energy from later thinnings.
- Standard shortwood harvesting of conifer first thinnings for 3 m pulpwood and industrial roundwood
- Integrated harvesting of conifer first thinnings for 4.3 m energy wood and industrial roundwood
- Whole-tree harvesting of conifer first thinnings for energy wood chip production
- Whole-tree harvesting of broadleaf first thinning for energy wood chip production
- Production of wood chip from premature clearfelling of lodgepole pine on cutaway peat
- Harvesting birch woodland on cutaway peat for wood chip production
- Whole-tree harvesting of softwood first thinnings for energy wood chip production, chemical thinning
- A synthesis and comparison of forest energy harvesting methods in conifer plantations
- A synthesis and comparison of forest energy harvesting methods in broadleaves