The forest which pays is the forest which stays - so runs the old and wise adage. Thus it should follow that when Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) is chosen as the preferred silvicultural system, the manager believes that it will 'pay': in producing fine timber for sale, or in landscape and amenity values, in various types of sporting uses or in specialised wildlife conservation. Mason and Glenny's article on implementing continuous cover forestry in a mixed broadleaved woodland in the July 2009 Quarterly Journal of Forestry is most timely and it includes clear 'objects of management': "to filter noise from the main road and provide the property with shelter and (retain) an important feature in the local landscape".
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