Examples of damage caused by forestry machinery

Machines aren't always the best tools for working in the forest. For example, when carrying out selective cutting or maintaining sections. Given the current size of most forestry machinery, it's necessary to sacrifice certain trees in order to gain access to the felled trees.

Unfortunately you can also see major grooves in the ground and sometimes damage to tree roots.

Far from being Luddites, we're not advocating abandoning the use of machinery, but rather a partnership between mechanised and horse-drawn logging, in the interests of the better forest management.