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Old 21st November 2007, 12:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
mdvaden
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Default Re: Heading Cuts| Pruning to Nodes| Crown Restoration

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Originally Posted by Ekka View Post
Occasionally to prune to target (collars, unions etc) would leave very little of the trees biomass, an alternative is heading cuts preferably back to nodes.

Guy Meilleur aka Treeseer has been an advocate of this practice. Often the only alternative to this for trees would be removal.
It makes a lot of sense, especially when removal is the alternative.

Also, with many trees, all the heading cuts don't need to occur within the same year.
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