In the new forest management recommendations in Finland, one cultivation alternative for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is intensive cultivation in which the quality of a poor or mediocre pine stand is improved by carrying out an intensive, quality first thinning. This type of thinning leaves...

The impact of undergrowth and its pre-clearance methods on the productivity, costs, and silvicultural result of the winter and summer harvesting of first-thinning Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stands, and as well as the profitability of pre-clearance were analysed. The density and average height...