{"id":102,"date":"2019-04-06T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=102"},"modified":"2019-05-13T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:22:17","slug":"topic-8-5-forest-product-protection","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/chapter\/topic-8-5-forest-product-protection\/","title":{"raw":"Topic 8.5: Forest Product Protection","rendered":"Topic 8.5: Forest Product Protection"},"content":{"raw":"Due to the tremendous variety of forest products harvested, and the equally great variation in biotic and abiotic conditions in managed forests, the challenge of protecting forest products from deterioration can be either minor or severe.\u00a0 Both wood-staining fungi and wood-boring insects rapidly colonize logs on the forest floor.\u00a0 Among the commercial timbers are some that start to deteriorate within hours of felling, and others that can be left lying on the forest floor for up to a year before extraction without serious deterioration.\u00a0 For example, loggers in lowland Ecuador spray logs of some species with mixtures of fungicides and insecticides immediately after felling. In contrast, loggers in the mountains of Costa Rica and the dry woodlands of Zambia can leave logs of some species on the forest floor for many months without any detectable deterioration.\u00a0 In addition to variation in susceptibility to decay of different woods in different regions, there are often seasonal differences in rates of decay.\u00a0 Obviously, knowledge about the susceptibility to attack of the different forest products being harvested, the ecology of the attacking organisms, and how they can best be controlled are important for assuring the profitability of forest management operations.","rendered":"<p>Due to the tremendous variety of forest products harvested, and the equally great variation in biotic and abiotic conditions in managed forests, the challenge of protecting forest products from deterioration can be either minor or severe.\u00a0 Both wood-staining fungi and wood-boring insects rapidly colonize logs on the forest floor.\u00a0 Among the commercial timbers are some that start to deteriorate within hours of felling, and others that can be left lying on the forest floor for up to a year before extraction without serious deterioration.\u00a0 For example, loggers in lowland Ecuador spray logs of some species with mixtures of fungicides and insecticides immediately after felling. In contrast, loggers in the mountains of Costa Rica and the dry woodlands of Zambia can leave logs of some species on the forest floor for many months without any detectable deterioration.\u00a0 In addition to variation in susceptibility to decay of different woods in different regions, there are often seasonal differences in rates of decay.\u00a0 Obviously, knowledge about the susceptibility to attack of the different forest products being harvested, the ecology of the attacking organisms, and how they can best be controlled are important for assuring the profitability of forest management operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-102","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":93,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/102\/revisions\/204"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/93"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/102\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/fode014notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}