The healthiest, tallest, largest and best formed trees will be retained as crop trees to accumulate future volume growth. These residual crop trees will be spaced appropriately to retain a density of 100 square feet of basal area. Selected crop trees will be protected from damage during thinning activities. Otherwise, all other timber shall be felled and utilized to the highest merchantable standards. The timber sale boundaries are defined on the attached maps and will be marked with orange flagging. Ingress and egress shall be only through access roads shown on the maps or mutually agreed upon. A single row of trees may be removed from each side of the access road to provide better access for trucks and equipment. All other logging activity will be confined within the sale area and any logging debris accumulated outside the area or within reserve strips, if applicable, must be pulled within the sale area. Logging slash will be removed from the major forest access roads. Stump height shall approach ground level and must not exceed six (6) inches above mineral soil.
