CHAPTER II 



REPRODUCTION METHODS 



Treatment of the Stand during the Period of Regeneration 

 or Establishment 



Definition. — A reproduction method may be defined as an 

 orderly procedure or process by which a forest is renewed or 

 estabHshed either naturally or artificially. This process is 

 accomplished during the reproduction or regeneration period, 

 which comes when the stand is harvested at the end of every 

 rotation. It is accomplished through skillful cuttings of the 

 mature timber supplemented where necessary by special 

 treatment to create and maintain conditions favorable for the 

 start and early life of reproduction. Where artificial meth- 

 ods of regeneration are employed, as may be the case in re- 

 newing established forests and must be used in reforesting 

 open lands, the seeding or planting of the area is included as 

 part of the process. 



The term " silvicultural system" is used frequently as prac- 

 tically S3nionymous with reproduction method. As some- 

 times employed it is intended to include both the reproduction 

 method and the intermediate cuttings applied in a given case. 



Standard Reproduction Methods. — Many different repro- 

 duction methods have been developed, but they can be re- 

 duced on analysis to a few standard methods which are 

 applicable in principle the world round. In practice the 

 details of applying a standard reproduction method may vary 

 for every species, forest region and owner. As time passes 



