Site Preparation
         
  Regeneration      
 

Plan for a new forest. There are two primary ways to regenerate your new forest: natural and artificial regeneration. Choose the best option suited to your specific management goals and needs.

 
     
  Artificial regeneration: A newly planted stand of trees. Planting aids in rapid reforestation with healthy, vigorous seedlings at the proper spacing.   Natural regeneration: Retention of healthy and desirable species with sufficient crowns and growth form provides for the establishment of seedlings from genetically superior seed sources.  
     
  A vigorous, well-stocked forest on its way to maturity. With proper management, your forest can continue to provide economic and environmental benefits.   Advanced natural regeneration in the understory. The mature trees left from previous harvesting provide adequate shading for the establishment of a new forest.