8/21/2020
Ellen Luedloff
For the past few weeks my partner and I have been marking thinning stands. This means that we are using paint to mark trees that will be removed either due to crowding, defect, or suppression. Doing this allows the stronger, healthier trees to have more room and resources to continue to grow until the entire stand is read
y to be cut.
Thinning is something that occurs naturally in forests, much like natural selection, the dominant trees will eventually overtake the weaker trees thinning simply helps to speed up the process!