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stand, by means of several cuttings, shelterwood is best suited 

 for well-settled regions where intensive management can be 

 practiced. 



56 8 10 12 H 19 21 23 26 



10 14 ' 21 



Fig. 16. The shelterwood method. 



I. An even-aged stand sixty years old marked for the preparatory cutting. 

 II. Five years after the preparatory cutting has been made. The seedbed has been 

 made more favorable for germination and a little reproduction may be seen in the 

 more open places. The stand is marked for the seed cutting. 



III. Ten years after the seed cutting. Complete reproduction has been secured and the 

 stand is marked for the final cutting. 



The simplest form of this method, and the only one that 

 can be applied with crude market conditions, is to remove the 

 stand in two cuttings about twenty years apart. The first, in- 

 tended to give opportunity for reproduction to start, is called 



