THE WHITE PINE REGION 



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rant its introduction, but elsewhere in the region red pine is 

 recommended for planting, to replace the pitch pine. Probably 

 a clear cutting of the pitch pine before planting with red pine 

 will be best, as the latter does not require shade of an older 

 stand in youth. 



On the second class of soils where white pine could grow, the 

 management should work to replace the pitch pine by white 



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Fig. 115. — Reproduction following clear cutting with the leaving of seed trees. The clear 

 cutting was done about 10 years ago and the seed trees (the stump of one being seen 

 in the foreground) were recently removed. 



pine. If seed trees of the latter are in the vicinity it can often 

 be done by protection from fire together with a clear cutting of 

 the pitch pine in a white pine seed year. Indeed, the white 

 pine, under fire protection, will reproduce abundantly, directly 

 under the pitch pine stand, which has a favorable influence 

 as nurse trees on the growth of the white pine for a few 

 years. 



Where white pine seed trees are lacking the white pine should 

 be underplanted and a few years later the pitch pine stand cut 

 clear. 



