The objectives of the handbook is to provide members of the forestry industry with a guide for locating, designing or modifying a dryland sortyard. It provides comprehensive, factual information that can be followed in a step-by-step fashion. It stresses sortyard system analysis and design rather than construction details. Concepts of management science and their application in the selection and design of a sortyard are discussed. Current costs and productivities of sortyard and sorting systems are given. Many of the subjects discussed in the handbook apply to other areas of logging.