The part of a tree or woody plant bearing live branches and foliage. A stand of trees containing a single age class in which the range of tree ages is usually less than 20 percent of rotation. A planned sequence of treatments designed to maintain and regenerate a stand with one age class. The range of tree ages is usually less than 20 percent of the rotation. A cutting method by which a stand is harvested.
Emphasis is on meeting logging requirements rather than silvicultural objectives.
Ingrowth is usually measured as basal area or volume per unit area. A collective term for any treatment designed to enhance growth, quality, vigor, and composition of the stand after establishment of regeneration and prior to final harvest. A release treatment made in a stand not past the sapling stage in order to free the favored trees from competition of older, overtopping trees. An age class created from natural seeding, sprouting, suckering, or layering. A tree, group, or crop of trees, shrubs, or other plants, either naturally occurring or introduced, used to nurture or improve the form of a more important tree or crop during youth by protecting it from frost, insolation, or wind.