<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OJF</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Open Journal of Forestry</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2163-0429</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ojf.2014.42015</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">OJF-42892</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Earth&amp;Environmental Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Strategies for Achieving Sustainable Logging Rate in the Brazilian Amazon Forest
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>valdo</surname><given-names>Muñoz Braz</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Patricia</surname><given-names>Povoa de Mattos</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mariana</surname><given-names>Ferraz Oliveira</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Renato</surname><given-names>Olivir Basso</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Elabore Projetos e Consultoria Florestal, Sinop, Brazil</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Embrapa Forestry, Colombo, Brazil</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>evaldo.braz@embrapa.br(PPDM)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>14</day><month>02</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>04</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>100</fpage><lpage>105</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>December</day>	<month>3rd,</month>	<year>2013</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>January</day>	<month>6th,</month>	<year>2014</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>January</day>	<month>21st,</month>	<year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
   Data of increment of the remnant trees after logging, ingrowth and mortality was obtained by assessment before logging and after 6 years, two sites of 50 ha, in Amazon forest. Logging scenarios were simulated to identify the logging rate potential for each studying site, by diameter class projection method. The cycle of 35 years and the logging rate of 30 m<sup>3.</sup>ha<sup>-</sup><sup>1</sup> exceed the time required for recovery in the primary forest, in the studied site. The simulation showed that in the studying area, a well-planned logging, with minimum logging damage would be possible to implement an initial cycle of 25 years to the forest to recover 30 m<sup>3.</sup>ha<sup>-1</sup>, if 50% of the timber stock were reserved. The forest increment, beyond important factors such as the increase of individual species, is quite dependent on the remnant trees.  
      
     
 
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