SELECTION SYSTEM IN NORTHERN HARDWOODS

Northern hardwood stands with multiple age classes allow immediate use of selection system to control the diameter and age-class distributio ns. This ensures consistency in yields, ecological conditions, visual qualities, and other values. To convert even-aged communities, landown ers must partition the cut of upper canopy trees over many decades, re generating a new age class with each entry. In both cases, landowners must commit to the long-term program of deliberate management that sel ection system requires.