THE WHITE PINE REGION 



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Logging Methods, Market Conditions, Industries, Own- 

 ership OF Woodlands. 



Logging MetJwds. — The topography of the white pine region 

 makes logging here a relatively easy matter. Cutting and 

 hauHng of logs is often carried on the greater part of the year. 

 This practice is most common in the central and southern por- 

 tions of the region, where snow cannot be relied on for winter 



Fig. 120. — The white pine type. A light thinning in a stand 40 to 50 years of age. 



logging. In the southern portion for a few months in the sum- 

 mer the heat makes logging expensive. In the northern por- 

 tions, with more snow, there is more of a tendency to concentrate 

 logging operations in the winter. 



Clear cutting has been the usual method of logging in the 

 past. It will not need radical change when forestry methods 

 are introduced. The use of thinnings, leaving of seed trees, 

 and removal of a mature stand in two operations instead of 

 one are the principal changes recommended. Under nearly all 

 the systems of reproduction advised in the preceding chapter 

 a final clear cutting of the stand is included. 



