ORIGINAL: NorthPA
I welcome someone to correct me if I am wrong, but I think there is a forestry method referred to as a "hundred year" plan.
Here again, I'm going on a fading memory of a seminar some years ago.
It seems that in order to maintain a constant and predictable flow of hardwoods (income for PGC) in perpetuity, that cutting rotation should be 1% percent per year. I don't think this is just for timber harvest purposes but also to have staged forests with all stages from seedling to old growth.
Being that the PGC mandate is for "all" wildlife.
You can call it what ever you want but that won't change the point that its stupid! And as long as stupid rules rule stupid people we will have the same problems 100 years from now. Thats why we have private property rights so that when the stupid come up with these lame ideas the rest of us can do what we know is right. A continual and select timbered forest will out perform any hand off forest in every aspect be it timber production or wildlife habitat.