Great Basin Naturalist
Abstract
Surface-bearing pressure in newer logging skid trails compared to the 40+ -year-old trails was approximately 60% greater as measured by a cone penetrometer. Surface soil compaction from tractor skidding may last 40 years or more, as evidenced by the fact that skid trails of that age were 20% more resistant to the penetrometer than areas adjacent to trails. No relationship was found between dry-bulk density (measured with a balloon apparatus) and surface-bearing pressure.
Recommended Citation
Vora, Robin S.
(1988)
"Potential soil compaction forty years after logging in northeastern California,"
Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 48:
No.
1, Article 17.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol48/iss1/17
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