Conventional logging practices can have a hugely detrimental impact on our planet’s forests. While timber companies defend selective logging practices, these methods often lead to severe disruption of ecosystems. Improved forestry management techniques aim to reduce the negative environmental impact of forestry activities while continuing to produce ample timber benefiting local economics and livelihoods.
By employing a suite of sustainable harvesting techniques, the project both reduces GHGs as well as any ecological disturbance that comes with conventional logging practices. Protecting these forestlands plays a vital role in ensuring landscape connectivity and ecological resilience throughout Southern Appalachia, allowing populations of many animals such as elk, deer and black bears to thrive.
helps avoid heavy water runoffs on the slopes and avoids soil erosion, helping to filter the water for downstream communities
mitigated overall by the project
under improved management, home to the thriving population of elk, deer and black bears
