Activities at Roadside Landing, Terminal or Plant

The previous section dealt with the harvesting and extraction of biomass in various forms to the roadside landing, which is almost always a discrete point between the primary supply phase (extraction) and the secondary phase of moving the material to the plant. However, the duration of time the material spends at the roadside landing varies from minutes if a “hot” container system is being used, to days, months or even years in the case of stumps. Most of the research looking at roadside storage and moisture management of biomass comes from boreal countries, where autumn and winter are characterized by large amounts of precipitation in the form of rain and snow, and where ice clumping is a problem. Few industrial plantations are located in these climate zones and local knowledge should be developed on good moisture management strategies.