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chosen as in seeding. The spacing should not be too far apart 

 since cattle and game will destroy many plants. The use of poor 

 stock should be most carefully avoided. As a rule, only plants 

 grown in seed beds should be used. Where weeds have not taken 

 possession of the ground, 2 to 3 year old, not too slim, seedlings 

 can be used; on a very weedy place stronger plants, preferably 3 

 to 5 year old transplants should be used. Where on middle slopes 

 seed beds can be placed, plants grown there would be preferable 

 to those grown at lower elevations in regular nurseries. 



As rapidly as possible newly cut-over areas should be restocked. 

 After these, the fail places in those stands which will soon form a 

 canopy, and last the larger areas which have grown up to weeds. 



The reproduction of cut-over areas by means of seeding should 

 only be attempted where good results can be expected under con- 

 ditions of grass and weeds, and as a rule seeding should only be 

 attempted once and then planting resorted to. On the upper 

 slopes which cattle frequent and on wet areas it will frequently 

 be necessary to fence in the cut-over areas, if reproduction is to 

 be secured. Where wood is lacking for this purpose wire fence 

 should be used. The patchy character of young growth on many 

 of the cut-over areas, the large areas at present without young 

 growth, the failure of reforestation on large unprotected areas, 

 the necessity of cleaning up the old over-mature trees, all make it 

 necessary to do a lot of intensive artificial reproduction during 

 the immediate future, and with the high wages prevalent in this 

 region and the high elevation of the areas to be restocked, re- 

 quiring great effort to get the plant material there, make a large 

 expenditure during the immediate future imperative. It is in- 

 advisable to attempt reproduction, either by seeding or planting, 

 of beech or fir, since adequate results are not to be expected. 

 The introduction of larch can be secured through seeding in 

 mixture with spruce seed. On places where grazing is heavy 

 and there is much game no attempt should be made to introduce 

 larch. 



Later Removal Cutting and the Finae Cutting. 



The trees left for protection as mentioned above — provided 

 they cannot and should not be logged in the next succeding cut- 

 ting, should not be felled (or where this is impossible the Hmbs 

 taken off, or the tree girdled) until they have become suppressed 



