The current trend toward the establishment and care of forests for a
wide combination of uses requires flexibility in forest culture and a
knowledge of the silvicultural choices available to the resource manager. This
publication summarizes for each of 37 major forest types in the United States
the silvicultural systems...
This report discusses forests and treats the topic in four parts. The first part describes the life of an individual tree, and the second describes individual trees as parts of a forest. The third and fourth parts discuss forests as communities of trees and methods for preventing destruction of forests.