Harvesting thinnings
The wood fuel is harvested from a thinning, a means of reducing the stemnumber and to concentrate the future growth on fewer, better trees to get faster to a product that can be used in the wood working industry.
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- 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
- 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