Tending cuts

Cut type and thinning intensity by age and species

Parameters

Tending types by age: lighting (to 10 y), cleaning (11–20), thinning (21–40 conifers, to 60 hardwoods), shelterwood tending until final felling age. Intensity depends on species and stocking: conifers tolerate heavier removal. These are indicative norms — a forester marks exact trees.

Recommendation

Thinning

Intensity: 20%

Remove, stems/ha: 480