. The principles of handling woodlands . Forests and forestry; Forest fires. SYSTEMS OF CLEAR-CUTTING 133 by a series of strips beginning on one side and pro- gressing across the area until the whole is cleared. It is a method which requires a number of separate operations in the same stand. After the first strip is cut, an interval is allowed to elapse until the clearing is restocked b}- natural reproduction. Then a second strip, bordering on the first, is cut, and this in turn is repro- duced, and then successive other strips are cut at inter- vals until the timber is cut oH. It is at once o
. The principles of handling woodlands . Forests and forestry; Forest fires. SYSTEMS OF CLEAR-CUTTING 133 by a series of strips beginning on one side and pro- gressing across the area until the whole is cleared. It is a method which requires a number of separate operations in the same stand. After the first strip is cut, an interval is allowed to elapse until the clearing is restocked b}- natural reproduction. Then a second strip, bordering on the first, is cut, and this in turn is repro- duced, and then successive other strips are cut at inter- vals until the timber is cut oH. It is at once obvious that if this method were applied. 11^ HI II I HI II I III II I Fig. 29.—Cutting Scries. to a large block of timber and the strips cut even moder- ate!}' wide, it would take a long period to cover the area, and that a ver\' small \ield would be obtained at a single operation. CuTTiNc, Series.—To meet this difficult\', it is cus- tomar\' to constitute in a single block several cuttin^series. Instead of beginning at one side and progressing across the area in a single series of strips, the stand is divided into several approximateK' eqiial divisions, and a series. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Graves, Henry Solon, 1871-1951. New York : John Wiley & Sons
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