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Unit 3: Designing Low Impact Operations
Introduction

The key to maintaining environmentally sustainable biomass production operations is to design low-impact operations. These forest operations would have minimal impacts on soil, water, and biodiversity, and have high potential for improving the health and productivity of managed forest ecosystems.

 

 

This section provides a management-oriented summary of mitigation techniques.

 

Lessons in this unit include:

 
 
 

 

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