Juvenile spacing
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Juvenile spacing
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a silvicultural treatment to reduce the number of trees in young stands, often carried out before the stems removed are large enough to be used or sold as a forestproduct. Prevents stagnation and improves growing conditions for the remaining croptrees so that at final harvest the end-product quality and value is increased. Also calledprecommercial thinning. [Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]
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