CHAPTER X 



SILVICULTURAL TREATMENT OF YOUNG AND IMMATURE 

 STANDS (INTERMEDIATE CUTTINGS) 



1. GENERAL 



During the life of the stand, between the period of obtaining re- 

 production of forests and the time of logging (when the stand is re- 



FIG. 70. Thinnings in 40-year-old stand of dense second-growth yellow poplar. 



Trees to be left, after a selection thinning, are banded. Trees not banded are to 



be removed. First thinning removed 17 cords of 160 cu. feet each per acre and left 



24 cords per acre as a residual stand. The larger trees cut in thinning are 



utilized for pulp wood. Cranberry, North Carolina. 



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