To be clear your article is mostly about clear cutting and I'm talking about thinning. One of the steps to those big profitable trees is thinning and selectivel

To be clear your article is mostly about clear cutting and I'm talking about thinning. One of the steps to those big profitable trees is thinning and selectively keeping the best tree(s) for later. The interim products are lower value, but giving the industry a promise of the best logs allows them the finances to deal with the less valuable interims.