Removal of mature, marketable trees in an area in a series of partial cuttings to allow regeneration of a new stand under the partial shade of older trees, which are later removed. Typically, this is done by making two or three cuts over a decade. Compare clear-cutting, seed-tree cutting, selective cutting, strip cutting.

a regeneration cutting method that removes the overstory stand in two or more operations, spaced in time.

the removal of the understory of a forest so that younger saplings can grow in the shade of older and larger trees

Any harvest cutting of a more or less regular and mature crop, designed to establish a new crop under protection of the old.

The removal of most trees, leaving those needed for sufficient shade to produce a new age class in a moderated microenvironment. Removal of the shelter trees may or may not occur after regeneration becomes established.

A method of harvesting that involves 2 cuts: the first cut leaves trees at intervals to provide the canopy and species required for natural regeneration; the second cut harvests the resulting new crop of trees (which are fairly even-aged). Coupes progressives