Protecting our soil

City Forests recognises the value of a healthy soil strata to the sustainability of the forest environment and the company’s business viability. Loss of soil and soil compaction have a major impact on the health of the land and waterways, and City Forests has a programme to minimise problems that may be caused by heavy machinery compaction and tracking.

Using imagery analysis of recently harvested sites we are able to measure the total disturbed area. A calculation of the disturbed area over the total harvest area gives total site disturbance as a percentage.