The Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) studied the feasibility of applying training strategies to bucking, and marking following falling but prior to yarding, to increase the amount of coarse woody debris retained in an old-growth stand. FERIC also assessed whether this method was an economically feasible way to reduce delivery of non-merchantable wood to log sortyards and therefore reduce the costs associated with yarding, loading, trucking, and disposing of non-merchantable wood. FERIC's study was part of a larger project initiated by the B.C. Ministry of Forests and Weyerhaeuser Company Limited on coarse woody debris retention.