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Clearcutting is a prevalent silvicultural practice used to regenerate mixed hardwood forests in the southern Appalachians and to improve stands degraded by prior poor selection-cutting practices. Its widespread application is due in part to the economics of harvesting, but primarily due to its potential for regenerating economically desirable species (Smith 1962; McGee and Hooper 1970).
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Boring, L.R., Swank, W.T., Monk, C.D. (1988). Dynamics of Early Successional Forest Structure and Processes in the Coweeta Basin. In: Swank, W.T., Crossley, D.A. (eds) Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Ecological Studies, vol 66. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3732-7_12
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