IMPROVEMENT FELLINGS 113 



Judging from this quotation the term "improvement fellings" in 

 France is used rather as a general term to signify any kind of intermediate 

 felling. It has been employed by some officers in a narrower sense to 

 denote the improvement of mature stands prior to regeneration, where 

 dead, dying, and diseased trees are cut out systematically to reaUze 

 profit on what would otherwise constitute a loss. 



