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I believe that the implicit claim of this method is that planting a thicket is part of a process, the end point of which is a mature forest, and that the trees which die in the process of thinning from the original density to the final density die with a purpose and their growth and eventual death helps restore the area to a forest much faster than would just leaving it alone.

I do not have the expertise to validate this claim. But I don't think that they're suggesting that in 10 years there will still be 4 trees per square meter, or even one per square meter.




This page seems to suggest that poplar seedling density in clearcut areas is on the order of thousands per acre, which then thin out considerably as the trees mature. See the "seedling development" section.

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/liriode...




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