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cutting also avoids “high grading,” the practice of selecting only the best quality and most vigorous trees to cut, leaving the poorer trees and ultimately degrading the quality of the forest.
Further, clear cutting in itself is not damaging to the watershed; water quality is damaged by soil-disturbing practices such as heavy equipment, unstable logging roads, and skid trails. Selective cut, on the other hand, is usually only applicable with shade-tolerant stands such as sugar maple and American beech not typical in the county. While he was not advocating clear cutting, he said, it should be understood as one of several systems appropriate under certain circumstances.
When logging is over, said Wood, the area must be “put to bed” properly and timber replanted consistent with overall forest management goals, indicated by the third guideline: never consider timber harvest except in conjunction with timber regeneration. Fourth, remember that the forest is a complex ecosystem, including not only trees but also other plants, animals,
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