Even aged timber management is a group of forest management practices employed to achieve a nearly coeval cohort group of forest trees.[1] The practice of even aged management is often pursued to minimize costs to loggers; however, the practices of even aged timber management are frequently implicated in biodiversity loss and other ecological damage.[2]
Ecological analysis indicates that even aged timber management produces inferior outcomes for wildlife biodiversity and abundance.[3] There are a large number of examples of species which thrive on uneven or natural forest tree distribution. For example, the Wild turkey thrives when uneven heights and canopy variations exist and its numbers are diminished by even aged timber management.[4]