The owner should determine how best to protect the young and standing timber during lumbering.

He should decide on what plantings he will make to replace the trees that are cut.

He should survey and estimate the future yield of the forest.

He should study the young trees and decide about when they will be ripe to cut and what they will yield.

From this information, he can determine his future income from the forest and the best ways of handling the woodlands.
Under present conditions in this country, only those trees should be cut from our forests which are mature and ready for the ax.
This means that the harvest must be made under conditions where there are enough young trees to take the place of the full-grown trees that are removed.