Abstract
FOR a century or two it has probably been the desire and aim of the scientific forester to endeavour to bring the work of thinning a wood, at various ages in its development, within the circumscribed limits of a definition. There are many experienced foresters, and probably some of the most expert in this part of the forester's work, who maintain that any definition of the work involved or the laying down of any hard-and-fast rules is impracticable—if for no other reason than that in any wood the soil and other factors vary from place to place, with a consequent variability in growth. It follows from this state of affairs that the thinning operations must, if properly carried out, be based upon the condition of the individual trees and their crowns at any spot; and this condition will be a variable quantity. Greater regularity may be found in well-managed coniferous woods, and even in young well-grown broad-leaved crops; but so far as the forests of the British Empire are concerned, such conditions are only exceptionally present.
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Thinning Operations in Forestry. Nature 126, 743 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126743a0
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