Publication Number 420-405, Posted September 1998
Author: James E. Johnson, Extension Forester, Virginia Tech; David Wm. Smith, Shelton
Short Professor of Forestry, College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources, Virginia Tech
Figure 9. Diagram of a forest stand regenerating under a two-cut shelterwood. (a) Prior to harvest, (b) immediately following a combined preparatory and seed cut, (c) regeneration becomes established after the first cut, and (d) established regeneration following the second cut, or removal cut.
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