A Landowner's Guide to Selling Standing Timber - the Ontario ...

A LANDOWNER’S GUIDE TO SELLING STANDING TIMBERSupercanopy – a cluster of vegetation composed of talltrees that poke through the canopy. Usually conifers suchas white or red pine; provide landmarks and nesting spotsfor birds.Sustainability – the concept of producing a biologicalresource through management practices that ensurereplacement of the harvested resource, by regrowth orreproduction, before another harvest occurs.Uneven-aged Forest – a forest with trees of all agesand sizes, usually with at least three age classes.Veneer – a high-value product manufactured by slicing athin layer of wood from a log, either longitudinally fromone end of the log to the other, or from the log as it turnson a type of lathe.Tending – caring for trees:s Can include thinning, pruning and other measures toreduce competitions Increases survival rate, growth rate and commercialvalue of treesTolerance – the ability of a plant to germinate and growin shade.s Tolerant species such as maple, hemlock, and beechcan grow in shade.s Mid-tolerant species, such as oak, ash, and white pineneed partial sunlight to survive.s Intolerant species, such as white birch, poplar, andblack cherry need full sunlight – also referred to aspioneer species.s The growth rate of all species, including tolerantspecies, increases when the plants are exposed tomore sunlight.56