TY  - JOUR
AU  - Demir, Murat 
AU  - Ozturk, Tolga 
PY  - 2005
TI  - The Situation and Evaluation of Forest Harvesting Methods in Turkey
JF  - American Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
DO  - 10.3844/ajassp.2005.499.503
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2005.499.503
AB  - The present study summarize and evaluate major problems of timber harvesting in Turkey
and the future principles and objectives have been defined. Timber harvesting in Turkey is still carried
out by manual methods due to economical, social and environmental constraints. Almost 80% of
harvesting activities are mechanized in many developed countries while this value is only 5% in
Turkey. Overall ratio of mechanization is relatively low. Approximately percentage of man power,
animal power, machine power and skyline harvesting are 72, 15, 8 and 5%, respectively. The need for
forest roads in total in Turkey was 201810 km and that 133693 km portion on which, corresponding to
66.25% was constructed by end of 2003.