Silviculture Treatments

The inventory and planning we do on the Forest often identify changes that need to be made in the vegetation to provide particular types of wildlife habitat, to make areas more resistant to insect attacks and disease, to maintain shade in camping areas, to ensure people have a safe place to recreate, and to maintain or improve the quality of products coming from the forest.

Silvicultural treatments fall into three broad categories, or systems: uneven-aged, two-aged, and even-aged. These systems are named for the age distribution present in the areas of the forest being managed. The treatments associated with all of these systems accomplish at least one goal:
• They improve the growth conditions of existing trees (tending).

or
• They establish new trees in an area (regeneration).

or
• They harvest products (wood, foliage, etc.) from the forest (harvest).

EXAMPLES:

Reforestation

Tending

Regeneration

Harvest

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Last Updated: February 19, 2005