EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Salvage logging is the practice of logging trees in forest areas that have been damaged by wildfire, flood, severe wind, disease, insect infestation, or other natural disturbance in order to recover economic value that would otherwise be lost.

Detailed explanation-2: -Salvage logging is the practice of extracting boles from burned-over or otherwise disturbed forest areas in order to minimize the loss of commercial timber.

Detailed explanation-3: -A salvage harvest practice involves the removal of dead, dying, or deteriorating trees from a forest before the value of the wood products become worthless (Ford-Robertson 1971, Nieuwenhuis 2010). From: Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, 2013.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cut-to-length logging is the process of felling, delimbing, bucking, and sorting (pulpwood, sawlog, etc.) at the stump area, leaving limbs and tops in the forest. Mechanical harvesters fell the tree, delimb, and buck it, and place the resulting logs in bunks to be brought to the landing by a skidder or forwarder.

Detailed explanation-5: -Salvage cutting is the removal of trees that have been killed or damaged by insects, disease, wind, ice, snow, volcanic activity, or wildfire. The primary purpose of salvage cutting is to recover the economic value of trees before they decay.