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Excerpt from Pennsylvania Timber Industries: A Periodic Assessment of Timber Output Pennsylvania timberlands support a variety of valuable hardwood species such as black cherry, white ash, red and white oaks, and hard maple. In the past it was the practice to harvest high-value individual trees of these species and leave trees of less desirable spe cies and those with poor form and low value. This type of harvesting has become very ex pensive, and typically leaves large numbers of residual trees and logging debris per unit of volume recovered. Immediately after harvest ing, these residual stands have no further economically feasible use, and they are visually and environmentally unacceptable. A primary goal for industry should be to provide for the complete and highest use of the State's timber resources. This means that more wood fiber should be recovered and channeled to the wood-using industry best suited to convert each class of roundwood from each forested acre. Such newly developed equipment as rubber-tired skidders and total tree systems are well suited for harvesting hardwood timber stands, but this equipment represents a substantial investment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.