Unlike the aforementioned techniques, this method is used solely for harvesting wood.
Do we have permission to harvest live wood if there is not enough dead?
Foresters took their axes to the trees in the waning afternoon light to harvest enough wood to see them through the night.
Before that, this area was exploited to harvest wood by forest management and was cultivated by farmers.
From this land, they harvested wood, made charcoal, and may have cultivated cereals and grains for food and fuel.
It has also forced the lumber industry to harvest wood from young trees.
Under the agreement, International Paper will retain the right to harvest wood, with some limitations.
They have harvested wood for timber and charcoal.
I.e. by harvesting wood and returning part of its carbon to the soil as char, the wood yield would increase in years going forward.
But some timber companies find it unlikely that a few cancellations will have much influence on the way they harvest wood.