Creekside Forestry Services
Adirondack Silviculture Defined
| No Action-Free to Grow | No management activity is planned or required during current stage of stand development or before next scheduled site visit. |
| Reserve, Designated | Stand is reserved for a designated purpose (example: the stand is a designated SNA). |
| Reserve, Old Growth | Stand is reserved because it is a designated old growth stand. |
| Reserve, Future Old Growth | Stand is reserved because it is a designated future old growth stand. |
| Regeneration Harvest | General category for timber harvest methods that are designed to prepare a stand for natural (natural seeding/sprouting) or artificial (planting/seeding) regeneration. |
| Even-Aged Regen Harvest | General category for harvest methods designed to regenerate a stand with a single age class. The result is a stand of trees containing a single age class in which the range of tree ages is usually less than 20 percent of rotation. |
| Clearcut | Removal or felling, in a single cutting, of essentially all trees in the stand. |
| Clearcut- with Reserves | Same as above, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Clearcut-Sprouting | Removal or felling of essentially all trees to prepare site for natural regeneration by root or stump sprouting of harvested trees. |
| Clearcut-w/Rsrv - Sprouting | Same as above, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Clearcut-Natural Seeding | Removal or felling of essentially all trees in the stand to prepare site for natural seeding. Additional site preparation may or may not follow harvest. |
| Clearcut-w/Rsrv Natural Seeding | Same as above, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Clearcut-Artificial Regen | Removal or felling of essentially all trees in the stand to prepare site for planting or seeding. Additional site preparation may or may not follow harvest. |
| Clearcut-w/Rsrv - Artificial Regen | Same as Clearcut-Artificial Regen, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Seed Tree | An even-aged regeneration method in which an area is clearcut except that certain trees, called seed trees, are left standing singly or in groups for the purpose of furnishing seed to restock the cleared area. Seed trees are removed after regeneration is |
| Seed Tree- with Reserves | Same as Seed Tree, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Seed Tree-Interm Cuts | The initial harvest(s) from which seed trees are left standing. |
| Seed Tree-w/Rsrv-Interm Cut | Same as Seed Tree-Interm Cuts, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Seed Tree-Final Harvest | The final harvest of the standing seed trees after regeneration is established. |
| Seed Tree-w/Rsrv-Final Harvest | Same as Seed Tree-Final Harvest, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Shelterwood | A method of regenerating an even-aged stand by a series of partial cuttings, resembling thinnings, which extend over a small fraction of the rotation and provide protected seedbeds for regeneration. The sequence of treatments can include three distinct t |
| Shelterwood-with Reserves | Same as Shelterwood, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Shelterwood-Interim Cuts | The harvest(s) prior to final removal of the original overstory. |
| Shelterwood-w/Rsrv-Interm Cut | Same as Shelterwood-Interim Cuts, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Shelterwood-Final Harvest | Final removal cut to release established regeneration. |
| Shelterwood-w/Rsrv-Final Harvest | Same as Shelterwood-Final Harvest, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Salvage - Clearcut | Removal or felling of essentially all trees from a stand after a windstorm, wildfire, insect and disease damage, or other environmental factors. |
| Salvage-w/Rsrv-Clearcut | Same as Salvage - Clearcut, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Salvage - Clearcut - Windstorm | Removal or felling of essentially all trees from a stand after a windstorm. |
| Salvage-w/Rsrv-Clearcut-Windstorm | Same as Salvage - Clearcut - Windstorm, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Salvage - Clearcut - Wildfire | Removal or felling of essentially all trees from a stand after a wildfire. |
| Salvage-w/Rsrv-Clearcut-Wildfire | Same as Salvage - Clearcut - Wildfire, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Salvage - Clearcut - I & D | Removal or felling of essentially all trees from a stand because of insect and disease damage. |
| Salvage-w/Rsrv-Clearcut-I & D | Same as Salvage - Clearcut - I & D, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Salvage - Clearcut - Environmental | Removal or felling of essentially all trees from a stand because of environmental factors such as beaver flooding. |
| Salvage-w/Rsrv-Clearcut-Environment | Same as Salvage - Clearcut - Environmental, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Sanitation - Clearcut | Removal or felling of essentially all trees from a stand to stop or reduce actual or anticipated spread of insects and disease. |
| Sanitation-w/Rsrv-Clearcut | Same as Sanitation - Clearcut, but leave trees in clumps, strips, or islands occupy a minimum of 5% of the clearcut harvest unit, or greater than 5 leave trees per acre are left scattered throughout the site. |
| Two-Aged Regen Harvest | Harvest designed to maintain and regenerate a stand with two age classes. The resulting stand may be two-aged or tend towards an uneven-aged condition as a consequence of both extended period of regeneration establishment and the retention of reserve tree |
| Clearcut-With Reserves | A clearcutting method (as Clearcut) in which varying numbers of trees, or groups of trees, are not harvested to attain goals other than regeneration. |
| Clearcut-w/Rsrv-Sprouting | Clearcutting with reserves (as Clearcut) to regenerate the stand by sprouting of the harvested trees. |
| Clearcut-w/Rsrv-Nat Seedg | Clearcutting with reserves (as Clearcut) to regenerate a stand by natural seeding. |
| Clearcut-w/Rsrv-Atfl Regn | Clearcutting with reserves (as Clearcut) to regenerate a stand by planting or artificial seeding. |
| Seed Tree-With Reserves | A seed tree method in which some or all of the seed trees are retained after regeneration has been established to attain goals other than regeneration. |
| Seed Tree-w/Rsrv-Intrm Ct | The interim harvest(s) of a seed tree with reserves system. |
| Seed Tree-w/Rsrv-Final Ct | Final harvest of non-reserved trees in a seed tree with reserves system. |
| Shelterwood-With Reserves | Some or all of the shelter trees are retained well beyond the normal period of retention to attain goals other than regeneration. |
| Shelterwd-w/Rsrv-Intrm Ct | The interim harvests(s) of a shelterwood with reserves system. |
| Shelterwd-w/Rsrv-Final Ct | Final harvest of non-reserved trees in a shelterwood with reserves system. |
| Uneven-Aged Regen Harvest | Methods of regenerating a stand, and maintaining an uneven-aged structure, by removing some trees in all size classes either singly, in small groups, or in strips. The result is a stand of trees of three or more distinct age classes, either intimately mix |
| Group Selection | A method of regenerating uneven-aged stands in which trees are removed, and new age classes are established, in small groups. The maximum width of the groups is approximately twice the height of the mature trees. |
| Group Selection-w/Reserve | A variant of the group selection system in which some trees within the group are not cut to attain goals other than regeneration within the group. The remaining stand should include a minimum of 6 cavity trees, potential cavity trees and/or snags per acre |
| Group Selection - Salvage | Salvage harvest in a stand where small groups of trees are harvested because of windstorm, wildfire, or insects,disease, or animal damage and an uneven-aged stand structure is to be maintained. |
| Single Tree Selection | A method of creating new age classes in uneven-aged stands in which individual trees of all size classes are removed more-or-less uniformly throughout the stand to achieve desired stand structure. |
| Intermediate Harvest | Any intermediate timber harvest designed to enhance growth, quality, vigor, and composition of the stand prior to final harvest. |
| Commercial Thinning | Timber thinning harvest that will generate revenue from sale of wood products. |
| Row Thinning-Commercial | Commercial harvest of selected rows of a plantation. Generally done to reduce stand density and increase future tree growth. |
| Strip Thinning-Commercial | Commercial harvest of strips in a natural stand. Generally done to reduce stand density and increase future tree growth. |
| Selective Thinning-Comrcl | Commercial harvest of selected trees in a stand. Often the harvest trees are marked. Generally done to: a.) remove less desirable trees (species or form) from a stand, b.) decrease stand density and increase future growth of the more desirable trees left. |
| Salvage Cut - Selective Harvest | The selective removal of dead trees or trees being damaged or dying due to injurious agents other than competition, to recover value that would otherwise be lost. |
| Sanitation Cut - Selective Harvest | The selective removal of trees to improve stand health by stopping or reducing actual or anticipated spread of insects and disease. |
| Non-Timber Harvest | Harvest of plant products that do not require removal of live trees (example: maple syrup, herbs). |
| Manage for Understory | The management prescription is to not harvest this stand but to manage it for the understory species. The stand typically has a very low volume of merchantable timber but it has adequate desirable regeneration established. The stand will be allowed to naturally regenerate to the understory tree species without timber harvest. An inventory alteration will be made to update the stand data. |