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1.
The Research
Committee recommends allocating lands to three stages of forest
development including younger, mature, and older structures. These three
seral stages are needed to provide bases to compare and understand how
redwood ecosystems function -- how understory, shrubs, trees, and faunal
and floral diversity change over time and space in response to stand
treatments.
2.
A primary objective
in each of the three
seral zones would be to design and test alternative ecologically-based,
restoration management or natural forestry approaches to the management of
the redwood type.
3.
Most silvicultural approaches
tested should utilize all-aged methods with a minority using even-aged
methods.
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