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Logging on Slopes Kills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

J. M. Yarrow Robertson  and
Bambang Ryadi Soetrisno
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Abstract

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Ten hectares of forest were cleared for cultivation on a steep slope in the Alas Valley in Sumatra, and as a result 13 people were drowned. The authors describe what happened and show why a flood was almost inevitable.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , February 1982 , pp. 229 - 230
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982