Thinning definition

Thinning means the cutting down of trees according to the specifications of this contract.

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

• SPU completed a synthesis of accomplishments from the 13-year Restoration Thinning Program and recognizes that this program has had a significant effect on forest development at a landscape scale in the watershed.

• SPU recognizes that the objectives of the Ecological Thinning Program, riparian forest restoration programs and watershed forest management in general, need to better incorporate forest disturbances and resilience in order to continue meeting the overarching watershed management objectives of ecosystem service provision - high quality drinking water supply and habitat for a suite of fish and wildlife species, among other vital ecosystem services.

• Staff are currently conducting an assessment of the Ecological Thinning Program, which describes the projects that have been implemented since 2000, the ecological objectives, any monitoring conducted and results summaries, lessons learned and recommendations for continued program implementation.

• The OC suggests that SPU reconsider how the Ecological Thinning Program and other forest restoration programs are being conducted and shift the focus to projects that would both accelerate the development of old-growth conditions and increase forest resiliency in the face of climate change.

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 selective felling of immature trees to accelerate growth or improve the average quality of remaining trees.

Thinning means a forest practice used to accelerate tree growth of quality trees in the shortest interval of time.

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 partial harvests of about ½ of the forest canopy spread evenly throughout, with a goal of improving health, increasing growth of remaining trees, species diversity, and the compatibility of species to the specific conditions of the site. Creating young forest growth in the understory is not a goal of thinning.

Thinning means the removal from a forest in accordance with good forest practice of20