{"id":40,"date":"2016-04-07T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2016-04-12T01:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T08:58:03","slug":"slope","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/slope\/","title":{"rendered":"Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slope is also an important factor that limits the harvest area. WorkSafe BC\u2019s OH&amp;S regulations limit the use of rubber-tired skidders to a maximum ground-slope of 35% or less. For machines with tracks such as feller-bunchers, hoe-excavators, and crawling tractors \u2013 a ground-slope limit of 40% or less is set. Finally a hard limit of 50% or less, is set by WorkSafe BC for all other forestry equipment specially designed to work under steep-sloped conditions. On sites where the ground-slope exceeds 50%; cable-yarding, helicopter-logging and hand falling must be used to preserve the health and safety of working personnel (OH&amp;S Regulations, 1998). Besides, steep slope should also be protected for carbon sequestration and risk management. With all these factors being considered, we decided to exclude all areas have a slope higher then 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Map 6. Slope distribution<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/files\/2016\/04\/Slope-Map.jpg\" alt=\"Slope Map\" width=\"3300\" height=\"2550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/files\/2016\/04\/Slope-Map.jpg 3300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/files\/2016\/04\/Slope-Map-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/files\/2016\/04\/Slope-Map-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/files\/2016\/04\/Slope-Map-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen from the map 6, 100% of our AOI has a slope under 40%. Therefore we set relatively flat land (0 to 10% slope) to be more preferred (given a weight 2), while areas with significant slope levels (10 to 40 %) to be less preferred (given a higher weight 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slope is also an important factor that limits the harvest area. WorkSafe BC\u2019s OH&amp;S regulations limit the use of rubber-tired skidders to a maximum ground-slope of 35% or less. For machines with tracks such as feller-bunchers, hoe-excavators, and crawling tractors \u2013 a ground-slope limit of 40% or less is set. Finally a hard limit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26648,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geob370studentproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}