Mixed uo about mixtures

摘要

I have been thinking about mixtures recently and the fact that traditional silvicultural texts would recommend establishing broadleaves with a conifer nurse to grow quality timber. Today we are more afraid of creating such stands, nervous about theirmanagement and because there is a bit of anti-conifer sentiment abroad in some quarters. Yet we, as an industry and profession and as owners large or small, are embarking on the biggest expansion of forest cover for a generation. So, let us rehearse thereasons why past generations of foresters have so favoured growing oak, beech, and other main crop broadleaves in mixture with conifers.