Timberlands West Coast Ltd Beech Management Prescriptions and an Operating Plan for Indigenous Forest
- Document Type
- Review report
- Author
- Benecke, U., Griffiths, A.
- Project Creator
- Ministry of Forestry
- Current Holder
- Archives New Zealand
- Accession Number
- TTT001008
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000008
- Location
- Christchurch Archives
- Archives Number
- CBDO, 12459, CH934, 9
- Period
- 1997
- Volume
- 71 pp
- Content
- MoF had examined proposals by TWC for sustainable management of 38,000 ha indigenous beech forest involving individual tree or small group selection by low impact helicopter harvesting.A review team has gone through the proposal and suggested recommendations for prescriptive and operational plans submitted by TWC.Expert advice is made to the proposal on harvest prescriptions, effects of implementation, inventory, monitoring, modelling, ecological sustainability and silvicultural system as to yield and stand sustainability.
- Source
- Maruia and Grey Valleys, Westland
- Future Work
- No.
- General Note
- This is a review report that gives recommendations to areas of the proposal that need improving. It does not contain any raw data. May be of interest to anyone interested in small group selection felling.
- Sort
- Adequate. Sorted by index.
- Publish
- No
- Researchers
- Prepared by: U. Benecke, A. Griffiths and A. Tinnelly. Independent Expert Advisers: R. Allen, N. Devoe, D. Franklin, J. Wardle and G. White
- Security
- High
- Restriction
- Require written permission from author
- Species
- red beech (Nothofagus fusca), silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii), hard beech (Nothofagus truncata)
- Keywords
- Beech Management, Coupe Size, Harvesting, Timberlands West Coast
- Subject Areas
- Harvesting: Harvesting of mature indigenous forests and impacts on remaining trees.