Coppice-with-Standards Method

A coppice-with-standards method maintains seed-origin trees at wide spacings for long periods interspersed with coppice crops managed on short rotations. The standards serve as parents for seedlings to renew the coppice growth as sprouting vigor declines, and to produce large-diameter sawtimber. Foresters can use coppice-with-standards systems to grow mixed-species communities, and maintain species that do not reproduce vegetatively. Most landowners use a coppice-with-standards system where markets take both small- and large-diameter products. This system may also enhance recreational uses, maintain a more favorable habitat for some wild creatures, or have some other special value to a landowner. Foresters may also use a system called "compound coppice," in which some old standards are harvested and the remainder are left to grow for additional rotations (Nyland 1996).

See: Advantages and Disadvantages of Coppice-with-Standards