Soil Conservation Guidebook

Book excerpt: This guidebook provides guidance to forest workers on acceptable levels of soil disturbance in order to ensure that the physical, chemical, and biological properties necessary for maintaining the long-term productivity of forest soils are protected, maintained, or enhanced. The guidebook explains practices regarding permanent and temporary structures that give access to the forest (such as roads and buildings), indicates how much of a site can be occupied by such structures, and shows how to estimate the area occupied by those structures. The guidebook also recommends limits for soil disturbance within the net area to be reforested and forest floor displacement within that area.