METHOD FOR PLANTING FOREST CULTURES ON NARROW FELLING AREAS Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: silviculture. SUBSTANCE: method involves sowing seeds with simultaneous preparation of sowing places, agrotechnical and forest-growing management. All machines engaged in this work move through auxiliary corridors in the form of, for example, skidding trails left after timber exploitation. Technological operations in each pass are performed on half the width of apiaries adjoining the trails on both sides. The seeds are sown in spring on frozen and thawed soil or on partly thawed snow while agrotechnical and all kinds of silvicultural management are carried out after complete thawing of soil to its entire depth and its subsidence after thawing to normal condition while silvicultural management is conducted after freezing of soil. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 4 cl, 3 dwg