FAO Forestry Paper No. 133
Contributing to environmentally sound forest operations
IUFRO - International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Edited by
Dennis P. Dykstra
Center for International Forestry Research
Bogor, Indonesia
and
Rudolf Heinrich
Chief, Forest Harvesting, Trade and Marketing Branch
FAO Forestry Department
Proceedings of an FAO/IUFRO Meeting of Experts on Forest Practices
Feldafing, Germany
11-14 December 1994
The opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect opinions on the part of FAO.
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