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A MANUAL OF FORESTRY. 



2. The Strip System of Natural Regeneration under 

 Shelter- Woods. 



As already mentioned, this system is a modification 

 of the compartment system. Instead of conducting the 

 regeneration process uniformly over a whole wood or 

 compartment, the area is divided into a number of 



NORTH. 



u 



WEST. 



Direction of 

 prevailing 

 wind. 



EAST. 



SOUTH. 

 Fig. 68. 



narrow strips, which are taken in hand, one by one, at 

 such intervals, that generally three strips are under 

 regeneration at one and the same time : one being in the 

 final stage, one in the seeding stage, and a third in the 

 preparatory stage. As soon as one strip has been 

 completely regenerated a fresh strip is taken in hand, 

 and so on until the process is gradually extended over 

 the whole compartment or wood. In the appended 

 Figs. 68 and 69, the strip marked /is in the final stage, 



