This position paper will focus on silviculture in forest production and its importance in North America, but generally in Canada. First one must understand what the word silviculture' means and what it is in the forestry world; only then one can go into detail about the process and methods.
             When looked up in the dictionary, it says The care and cultivation of forest trees; forestry, and that is exactly what it is. Silviculture is science, practice of establishing, tending, and reproducing forests with desired characteristics. The main goal of silvicultural methods is to do all that without causing a lot of harm to our environment, our earth. Other things that silviculture focuses on is growth, composition and quality of forests, and what effects them; things like wildlife, humans, soil, environment, environmental change, etc.
             Silviculture methods are also used to find out how to make forests permanently useful to the human kind, and to improve or modify nature or ecosystems. What all this means is that people want to perfect trees like they want to perfect everything else. If they achieve this, trees and wood will always be perfect for everything and anything. Is this a bad thing? It may be, but this will increase the speed of forestry and the quality of wood. The companies will make more money by saving time and people since the search for the an appropriate forest wont be necessary.
             Also, to fully understand what silvicultural methods involve, one must know about silvics. Silvics is understanding the growth of trees and how to increase it naturally, and how to manipulate tree species compositions to meet landowner's purpose (refer to appendix1 for dictionary meaning). To obtain knowledge about that, forestry companies organize government and non-government research and studies.
             The studies that are done are mostly about impacts of silvicultural methods; like how to
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