Regulations for Conservation Forest Managements Article 10

Where it is difficult to regenerate the protection forest by selection cutting, horizontal cutting by strips or clear cutting by strips or group-selection perpendicular to the monsoon may be performed instead. Where the total clear cutting area for the year shall exceed three hectares, the clear cutting shall be dispersed with the area of each cutting spot not exceeding three hectares.Where the total clear cutting area of the protection forest provided in the preceding paragraph is less than three hectares in the year, partial clear cutting may be performed instead at the interval of less than three years.The dispersion of clear cutting spots provided in the first paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to partial clear cutting at an interval of less than three years.