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 metliod would be apt to result In serious windfall of the remaining 

 trees. In olose Impenetrable stands of low quality, second growth 

 timber, this method would be wholly impossible. Many other oondi- 

 tions will be found, usually in small sections of the forest, where 

 clear cutting will be the only effective method of Improvement, The 

 olear cutting method provides for reproduction by seed supplied from 

 the trees on the area which have been out following a seed year, or 

 by seed blown in from the side, ihen properly conducted the repro- 

 daotlon is usually abundant and vigorous, and of the desired species. 

 Artificial planting may be used where natural reproduction falls, or 

 to fill in spaces where it has not been satisfactory. It is sQ.so used 

 In reforestation. 



The reoreationist should consider that this treatment is for the 

 ultimata good of the forest and its Improvement. Clear cutting, when 

 properly accomplished, creates an eye sore only by reason of a fail- 

 ure to understand and appreciate the method and purpose which created 

 it. Under an adequate forest working plan provision is made for dis- 

 posing of the slash and other unmerchantable material which necess- 

 arily acctimulates in the process of Ivunbering, and if reproduction 

 is secured the stumps are quickly hidden from sight, the area loses 

 its barren aspect, and a complete forest canopy of new growth is es- 

 tablished in a few years. It is not devastation, but rejuvenation 

 and improvement. 



Clear cutting creates a radical change in the conditions afford- 

 ed the wild life, but it is not destructive to them and is not harm- 

 ful if adjoining areas of forest are available. Rightly applied it 

 serves the major purpose of the wisest use of the particular area 



