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GEOGRAPHY FROM 4 SCIENCE

CHAPTER 3 : Resource and exploitation

Method of timber exploitation

Four main stages are involved in timber exploitation:

  • Preparation
  • Felling
  • Extraction
  • Replanting(reforestation)
  1. Preparation
  • foreign areas are to be exploited
  • create tracks roads to the area
  • establish a setup camp to the workers and store food
  1. felling
  • engine and at time hand saws are used in felling
  • branches are striped and trunked out into logs
  1. 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
  1. replanting
  • timber companies are completed to become new seeding after felling and replanted species for those felt
par Claude Foumtum