Table of Contents

Silviculture and Its Place in Forestry; TENDING AND INTERMEDIATE CUTTING: Thinnings and Their Effects on Growth and Yield; The Individual Tree and Its Treatment; PRUNING: Methods and Application of Thinning; Release Operations and Herbicides; Improvement and Salvage Cutting; Control of Operations; REGENERATION: Regeneration; Preparation and Treatment of Site; Choice of Species and Genetic Improvement; Production of Planting Stock; Planting; SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS: Development of Silviculture Systems and Methods of Reproduction; Clearcutting Methods; Shelterwood and Seed-Tree Methods; Selection Systems and Uneven-Aged Management; Methods Based on Vegetative Regeneration; Silviculture of Stratified Mixtures of Species; Appendixes; Index.