Strategy 2

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• Mahogany Trees (M-block)    100-year rotation,  (100 blocks = white square blocks)

• Eucalyptus Trees (E-block)    25-year rotation,  (10 blocks = red blocks)

• Parrot Sanctuary:                     Not harvested ( 40 blocks = blue area)

• The road borders the outside of the Eucalyptus blocks, and the entire outward length of the gray column.

• The parrot sanctuary contains 8,000 hectares of 150-year old forest

• This strategy sustains 100 pairs of parrots within the breeding season, and 112 pairs outside the breeding season

• Parrot blocks = 200 hectares, M-blocks = 200 hectares, & E-blocks = 40 hectares,

• Harvest 1 M-block and 2-E blocks each to give the sawmill a surplus of 140,000 cubic meters of timber per year.

• Which area in the plot is first harvested?  The first Mahogany harvest would begin on the right side of the bird sanctuary (*-block), and harvest downwards.  The second harvest would begin in the second column, immediately below the parrot sanctuary (**-block) and trees would be harvested downwards.

• After each block is harvested, trees are replanted

Advantages of Strategy 2

Some benefits of designing this strategy is the parrot sanctuary is never harvested, so the parrots will never be disturbed.  Just as with strategy 1, the Eucalyptus and Mahogany trees will be cut down and replanted to ensure the growth of the forest. 

Disadvantages of Strategy 2

The road design could potentially threaten the lives of the birds because of the close proximity to the parrot sanctuary.