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injury in the forests, salvage cuttings are demanded as a regular 

 part of management, to make the best of a bad situation. 



When promptly made, before decay has progressed far, salvage 

 cuttings usually yield material of merchantable size. Where 

 the returns from material taken out will not pay the expenses of 

 removal, salvage cuttings are not ordinarily recommended. 



Fig. 38. A salvage cutting. Note the undergrowth of grass and weeds which has started 

 as a result of the heavy cutting. To avoid such undergrowth intermediate cuttings 

 should be made as light as possible. The fallen tree, weakened at the base by fire and 

 fungi, has been broken off by the wind. 



Schedule of Intermediate Cuttings. In order to illustrate the 

 relative time at which the different kinds of intermediate cuttings 

 are made, the following table has been drawn up for a planted 

 stand of white pine, this particular type of forest serving as a 

 good example for even-aged stands of other species. The 

 rotation has been set at sixty years. If it was intended to re- 

 produce the stand naturally, a reproduction cutting would be 

 substituted for the last thinning. 



