# Liberation cutting > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Liberation_cutting > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Liberation_cutting.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_cutting > Source revision: 1345885557 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Please help improve this article by citing more sources. Find sources: "Liberation cutting" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2017) This article may contain original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Liberation cutting** has similar goals to [liberation thinning](/source/Liberation_thinning) and [cleaning](/source/Cleaning_(forestry)), namely the allocation of resources to the most promising trees available on a site. What separates liberation cutting from cleaning is that the overtopping competitors are of a distinctly older age class .[1] Need for liberation cutting often occurs when seedlings of a desired species have been regenerated by a logging operation, but that operation has left older, poor quality or undesired trees that are shading the regeneration and limiting its growth. Liberation cutting may be superficially similar to an [overstory removal](/source/Shelterwood_cutting) cutting. The major difference between these is that in the overstory removal, regeneration was deliberate and the best trees were saved for the final harvest. In the liberation cutting, the worst trees remain and regeneration an afterthought to a logging operation. Harvesting the undesired trees is not a requirement in liberation operations; the poor quality trees may be removed in place and left as [snags](/source/Snags), or felled and left to contribute [coarse woody debris](/source/Coarse_woody_debris). ## See also - [Silviculture](/source/Silviculture) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Smith, D.M., B.C. Larson, M.J. Kelty, P.M.S. Ashton (1997). *The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology*. 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