Vigorous production of watersprouts on interior limbs is often a sign of over-thinning.

The aerial photograph of the forest clear cuttting in Alabama shown on above is available for immediate online license or prints or, to obtain it optimized to your needs please contact Aerial Archives directly and reference the ID number in the caption to the photograph. Aerial Maps and Satellite Imagery of Forest Clear Cutting.

Amanda Brenner Mar Article.

Thinning is the term foresters apply to removal of some trees from a stand to give others more room (and resources) to grow.

It is a tool for improving timber value, making sites more productive, and - perhaps most commonly - for keeping trees healthy. Learn when to thin and how much to cut, and learn why the answer may be"it depends."Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.

Group Selection – removes trees in to acre areas to create openings in the forest canopy; this mimics the opening of the canopy by the death of individual trees in an old growth forest.

Provides information on project planning, plant materials, site preparation, planting techniques, site maintenance, and monitoring and evaluation.

Improvement thinning – cutting poorer quality and defective trees to foster growth in quality residual trees. Thinning trees is a common practice in forest management that removes full rows of trees. We take you into the forest to show you how, much like weeding a garden, this operation has important benefits for our crop trees. KINGSLAND, Georgia- A row of south Georgia pines appears to be on the move as an aptly-named feller buncher saws through more than a dozen trees in a row, gathering them in its claw-like Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.