You could also chip the thinnings and use them as ramial wood chips for soil surface scattering to promote a beneficial reaction with the soil surface = a de facto fertiliser. See @Ben_Raskin & @GeorgeMonbiot’s latest books.
RT @WoollyMaggot: Beautiful trees, especially at this time of year, but a plantation nevertheless... To thin or not to thin.. Then burn the wood instead of oil/gas? Fancy balancing these objectives?

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