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YOUNG GROWTH IN J^ALL OPENINGS FOLLOWING 



SOFTWOOD LOGGING ON THI HARDWOOD TYPfi. 

 On anotlisr portion of the hardwood slope type, 33 

 sample plots Varying from one- twentieth to one- tenth 

 acre in are were laid out in such places, where at the 

 time of the outtingA in 1896 and 1905, softwoods were 

 taken out singly or in groups. On these areas all trees 

 were calipered and tallied by one inch D.B.H. classes. 

 Stand tables were prepared from n^ich figures on the 

 percentage of composition could be based. Trees up 

 to a D.B.H. of six inches were used in making these 

 tables, since the number of trees dropped off rapidly 

 beyond that diameter. Those above six inches D.B.H. 

 were aesvimed not to have composed part of the young 

 advance growth or the seedlings that started after 

 the loggings. 



Tables and Diagrams show beech to form 



60.74^ of the stand, with hard maple at 6.05^, birch 

 7.06^ and spruce 3.13^. An examination of table 

 shows beech to dominate in every D.B.H. class, with 

 maple second and birch a close third. This tend to 

 show that the cutting of the softwoods and thereby the 

 breaking up of the crown canopy, admitted a relatively 

 small amount of direct sunlight to the ground. Those 

 hardwoods which dominated in the stand had a natural 

 tendency to close the crown openings rapidly by 



