Chapter 8 - The Need for Planted Forests and the Example of Radiata Pine
by WILLIAM R. J. (WINK) SUTTON
A New Zealand radiata pine planted forest at 2000 trees per hectare and age 2 ½ years.
A 1950 photograph of an untended 20-yr-old radiata pine planted forest attacked by the wood wasps.
A regime trial in a 7-yr-old radiata pine stand being thinned to 200 stems per
hectare and pruned to 6 meters.
A cross section through a 60 cm mature radiata pine tree which has been timely
pruned.
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