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Rotational Harvesting

A forest is divided into separate plots. Each year only one plot is cut, so the others have decades to grow back before they are cut again.

In the picture

  1. Freshly cut plot: bare soil and low cut stumps
  2. Regrowing plot: young trees taller than saplings
  3. Untouched canopy plot: dense tall trees left uncut

Examples

  • A woodlot where one strip is cut each winter while the other strips keep growing.
  • A community forest that harvests a different block every ten years.

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Biology, Age 11