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A critical element of forest management is planning for the needs of its flora and fauna. The process of logging impacts many species. The type of logging practiced has unique impacts. These papers address the impacts of forest fragmentation that results for various forestry practices and the resulting volume of foliage.

Some highlights of these papers:

1. Canopy species, for example, often decline in response to selective logging.

2. Increased light penetration after logging promotes understory growth, which in turn creates more habitat for birds that use dense shrub and sapling habitats.

3. Mechanical damage and incidental felling damage to neighboring trees commonly results in an increased density of snags in some logged forest; cavity-nesting birds respond positively to this increase in available nesting and foraging sites

4. Because tree removal may create edges within large forest stands, especially when larger group cuts are formed, area-sensitive forest interior species may decline, but they are usually not completely extirpated from the stand.

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  Last Edited: 08/03/05