Excerpt from Evaluating Species Alternatives for National Forest Land Capable of Growing Western White Pine Forestry is an integrated Operations busi ness in which many kinds of activities are required for the production of a merchantable stand of trees. The allocation of an entire budget for timber growing cannot be based on a choice between regeneration or thinning; to evaluate these two kinds of work as alterna tive means of spending money is meaningless. Obviously both these activities (and others) are needed for a sustained yield operation. However, it is logical to evaluate alternative means of regeneration to determine which would be most efficient, or to evaluate various thinning Opportunities to determine which stands should be thinned with the money available. Some specific goal must be chosen before alternatives can be determined and evaluated as means of reaching that goal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.