Commercial Thinning (CT) is much the same as pre-commercial thinning:

	Stands are aged 35-45 years
	Dense stands of natural regeneration are thinned to between 2000 and 2500 tree per hectare
	Primary objective is to stimulate growth of crop trees
	Any merchantable timber cut is salvaged and sold as pulpwood, fuel wood, or sawlogs
	Extraction trails are required to remove salvaged timber to roadside
	Chainsaw is the tool of choice because of larger sized trees
	Less than 2500 hectares treated in this fashion to date, but treatment has great potential
	Industry wishes to acquire more wood from CT and other forms of selective harvesting as an alternative to clear-cutting only