Commercial Thinning for Non-Industrial Landowners (Forestry)

( 2024 )

Summary

Most forests in the Pacific Northwest are legacies of past management – they’ve been cut once, twice, or even three times and either left to regenerate naturally or planted with pure Douglas-fir. These relatively young forests are often extremely dense, to the point where trees are competing for resources – mostly sunlight and soil moisture – and the smaller trees are slowly dying off. This is called the stem exclusion phase and it can last decades, during which all of the trees in the forest are stressed by the competition

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