Slash (logging)
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In forestry, slash, or slashings are coarse and fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow or other natural forest disturbances.[1] Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard, and some North American states have passed laws requiring the treatment of logging slash.[2] Logging slash can be chipped and used (for example) in the production of electricity or heat in cogeneration power-plants,[3] or simply burned onsite.[4]
Where logging takes place on soft ground, loggers can use the branches and tops of trees as part of the timber-harvesting process to provide a track for forest machines.[5] Using slash in this manner reduces ground damage.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Slash". The Dictionary of Forestry. Society of American Foresters.
- ^ South Dakota Code
- ^ "California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
- ^ "Prescribed Fire - Pile Burning". US Forest Service. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
- ^ "Managing Brash on Conifer Clearfell Sites, Forestry Commission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
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