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general health of the land. These values justify the need for proper management.
Secondly, hardwood management is most urgent because of present misuses—in the form of fire, grazing, and improper cutting. Unless it is very carefully implemented, a cutting operation will highgrade the stand. “Highgrading” is the process of removing the best trees in the stand (providing short-term economic gain), leaving the less desirable, lower quality trees. In this county, highgrading is not an anomaly.
Causes of Over-Cutting
Over-cutting is occurring for several timely reasons:
(1) Due to inflation and general financial pressures of modern life, the forest landowner is often in need of
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