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 Appendix C. SILVfCULTURAL POLICY 



ST. REGIS PAPER COMPANY 

 GENERAL SILVICULTURAL OBJECTIVES 



1. To develop maximum production of wood volume from all the ownership, 



2. To obtain intensive utilizatior. practices. 



3. To prevent erosion and site deterioration. 



4. To provide protection against and control of insects, diseases and wildfire, 



5. To obtain a stabilized flow of ra^w material from the ownership. 



SILVICULTURAL METHODS 



PONDER OSA PINE MANAGEMENT 

 (tC, 000 Acres) 



The policy in the ponderosa pine type will be to perpetuate the pine on 

 these areas. Although the spread in price of stumpage between species has 

 closed inateriaily in the last t^r years, the ponderosa pine still is more 

 valuable than the Douglas fir whi( n invades these sites in natural succession. 

 The yield tables also snow a considerable margin of merchantable volume for 

 ponderosa pine per acre ovc r Doagjas fir on these same sites for all rotation 

 ages. 



The general pian in th»- pond* rosa p:*-* type will be to do- flop the 25, 000 

 acres of virgin stands remain?' g as soon as practical and cut them down u> 

 soed trees or small savtirnht r stands if thf- urdtTStory is reasonably vigoro.^s. 

 As most of thest remaining irg?r pcnderosa star^ds ar«- on the poorer sitfs, 

 th»*se stands will bf st b»- r»-ta3i^i"l Without starting o\,'-r again by burning or 

 scarification. Evrnwith stf<ttrf»3 rh«- rt sidua: wi!.l be sav <. d and inanai;* d 

 by thinning and cleaning to push it a'o-ig lor the earliest rt-cut possible. 



These stands will g* nt lallv bt- rnanagi d as uncvet' aged stands. 



(Note: Reproduced from Forest Management Plan, St. Regis 

 Paper Co. , 1969) . 



