Joe: I saw the diameter growth of the excessively thinned trees Alan was promoting in Belchertown and the heavy pruning that was done as well. I do not think that all the thinning in the world will make trees grow taller, faster...there might be a little increase in internodal length in white pine on sandy sites because of the increased availability of water in heavily thinned stands later in the growing season but for the most part height growth seems to be fairly site specific. It would be great to pursue an in depth discussion of all of the implications of value/income streams from comprehensive whole forest management but I think it is extremely difficult to explain to people that stump manufacturing is and should be only a single part of the long term forest management process....you get that but so many of our fellow "professionals" don't have a clue. I guess the mind boggling aspect of all of this is that I left Green Diamond Forestry Service almost 30 years ago! Russ
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