A better forest?
Sep 01, 2018
3 minutes
By Michael Virtanen
Four huge machines rumbled in a wide clearing at the end of a haul road within Molpus Woodlands Group’s Santa Clara Tract in the northwestern Adirondacks.
A grapple skidder, which resembled a bulldozer with four giant tires and mammoth pincer on one end, came and went, dragging a handful of cut trees each time from a pathway deeper in the forest. Another self-propelled machine, a feller buncher, had systematically
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