Project Code:	EDILA-01-005
Area:	Field Operations
Sponsor:	Edson and District

This Project’s aim was to remove the deciduous competition surrounding the conifer crop trees and assist them to achieve/maintain free-to-grow status.

Objectives included density reduction of competing vegetation; release of the conifer crop trees; and the creation of an environment in which the crop trees can maintain a free growing status.

Throughout the late Spring and Summer of 2001, a relatively inexperienced local contractor manual cleaned and tended about 107 hectares of previously reforested cutblocks. The average tending cost amounted to $841 per hectare.

Keywords
Density Management
Conifer Release
Weeding & Thinning
Mechanical – brush saw
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