I’m doing this forest management project this winter where we’re facilitating the development of a young, field-origin stand into a more diverse forest of species well-suited to this site. One of the ways that we’re helping this young forest become more diverse and complex and more like an old-growth forest is by cutting most of the white pine trees that are just here as a “successional” species but ultimately aren’t going to be a big part of this forest in the long term. Even though we’re cutti