State three characteristics of tropical hardwood forests which hinder exploitation.

      

State three characteristics of tropical hardwood forests which hinder exploitation.

  

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gideon
- Trees are closely set / packed making it difficult to cut and penetrate into the forest
- -Trees have large massive/heavy trunks which make it hard to cut and haul
- Different / many species within a unit area
- trees take long to mature ( 65 – 100 years )
- large buttress roots make it difficult to cut the trees
gideon1 answered the question on October 4, 2017 at 12:26


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