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Clearcut still is the main industrial harvesting method in Russia

Although Russian forestry regulations do suppose many different types of selective logging, clearcut still is the main industrial harvesting method in Russia. Its upper size is currently restricted with 50 hectares.

View at a typical Russian clearcut.

Here below You could see the space view to the massive clearcuts in the Republic of Komi. Chess-shaped logging plots are clearly visible. Newer plots (up to 50 hectares) could be separated by their size from older ones, which had up to 200 hectares according to the previous regulations.

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