问答题 Please describe and discuss the timber harvests in depth including the categories and their respective target, purpose, and criteria.
【正确答案】Types of timber harvests and their respective target, purpose, and criteria.
   ·Final felling
   ·Target: mature and overmature timber stands
   ·Purpose: timber production
   ·Criteria: favors forest regeneration, reduce negative ecological impacts
   ·Intermediate felling
   ·Target: immature stands
   ·Purpose: promote stand growth, improve stand quality
   ·Criteria: cutting stands with high density while keeping the one with low density, cutting trees in bad condition while keeping the good ones
   ·Regeneration cutting
   ·Target: protection/shelter forests
   ·Purpose: improve forest efficiency, promote regeneration
   ·Criteria: cutting weak, overmature, or maladapted trees
   ·Low yield forest improvement
   ·Target: low yield forest
   ·Purpose: create stands with high quality and yield
   ·Criteria: cutting stands with low yield and quality
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