Four main stages are involved in timber exploitation:
- Preparation
- Felling
- Extraction
- Replanting(reforestation)
- Preparation
- foreign areas are to be exploited
- create tracks roads to the area
- establish a setup camp to the workers and store food
- felling
- engine and at time hand saws are used in felling
- branches are striped and trunked out into logs
- extraction
- logs are moved to collection points
- they are taken by tractors to either river sites or loaded in trucks
- they are then transported to sawmills/seaports for exportation
- replanting
- timber companies are completed to become new seeding after felling and replanted species for those felt