Besides individual and group selection, what kinds of silviculture would be allowed under the PTEIR?
Commercial thinning is the other standard prescription from the Forest Practice Rules that would be included in the PTEIR. Like individual and group selection, it requires that a well-stocked stand of trees remain after harvest. In addition, our foresters have drafted a new prescription tailored to help landowners shift the composition of their forests away from the hardwoods that took over many sites after logging in the 1950s and ’60s which preceded the state replanting requirement. It’s called “all-aged management,” and will allow small groups of trees (no more than 2.5 acres, with trees retained in any patches larger than half an acre) to be cut, and for leave trees and planted seedlings to both be counted toward the restocking of the land.
