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Based on mode of
regeneration
Clear Shelter-
felling wood
system system
Wedge
system
Contents:
• Definition
• General description
• History
• Objective
• Measure to be taken to promote regeneration
• Advantage
• Disadvantage
• Use
• Important tree sps where it is applied
DEFINITION
Wedge system is a form of
strip system , in which the
strip, instead of being at one
end of the cutting section, is
located in the middle of it with
its length running both the
directions.
General description:
In wedge system the strip does not run from
one end of the cutting section to another.
It stops short of the windward side of the
cutting section.
Such strips are usually 2 to 5 m wide and made
at intervals of 80m.
AS PER FIGURE—