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Book Review - Pro Silva Silviculture: Guidelines on Continuous Cover Forestry/Close to Nature Forestry Management Practices.

April 2019
Quarterly Journal of Forestry 113(2):140

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University of Toronto

A review of the publication (2017) by Christine Sanchez, Foret Wallonne, detailing best-practice for CCF in forests found in the Wallonia region of Belgium. The guidelines were translated to English with support from Pro Silva Ireland and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Ireland).

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