Thinning means the evenly spaced noncommercial removal of up to 40 percent of trees and woody shrubs.
Thinning means the cutting and removal of trees to increase distance between trees that have the potential to yield high quality timber, for the purpose of promoting their growth by:
Examples of Thinning in a sentence
Pre-Commercial Thinning (See Stand Tending) Reclamation means the restoration, to standards acceptable to the Minister of Environment, of the ecosystem functions and processes of land disturbed by a licensee in the construction and maintenance or roads, processing facilities, camps, staging or timber storage areas or any other development used in connection with the harvesting of forest products (Forest Resources Management Regulations).
More Definitions of Thinning
Thinning means the removal of trees less than 18 inches DBH where removal will improve the growth of remaining trees or utilize diseased trees that might otherwise die. Timber removed from a harvest area meeting all of the following conditions:
Thinning means the evenly spaced noncommercial removal of up to 40
Thinning means a forest practice used to accelerate tree growth of quality trees in the shortest interval of time.
Thinning means selective felling of immature trees to accelerate growth or improve the average quality of remaining trees.
Thinning means the selective clearing of vegetation at a locality to restore a regional ecosystem to the floristic composition and range of densities typical of the regional ecosystem surrounding that locality.
Thinning means the selective removal of entire branches from a tree so as to improve visibility through the tree and/or improve the tree's structural condition.
Thinning means a regular forest surgery, selective sanitary harvesting and cutting related to reconstruction of low-value forest plantations as well as plantations losing protective, water preservation and other functions, cutting of single trees in young plantations;