Free-growing stand
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Free-growing stand
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Defined in the Forest Practices Code of British ColumbiaAct as a stand of healthy trees of a commercially valuable species, the growth ofwhich is not impeded by competition from plants, shrubs or other trees. [Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]
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