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Commonwealth
Forests | | |
 Management techniques
Recent developments in the techniques for tropical moist forest management have promoted
reduced impact logging (RIL), which incorporate methods that were developed as part of the
earlier systems and were included in concessionaires’ licenses. They include directional
felling, pre-exploitation climber cutting and the use of logging arches. RIL will provide the
conditions for regeneration and will protect the site, although not offering the fl exibility to
liberate existing stems or to infl uence the composition of the future crop through manipulation
of the overstorey.
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