Art. 19

(Art. 20 ForA)

1. All maintenance interventions that contribute to the conservation or restoration of the stability and the quality of a stand are classified as silvicultural measures.
2. Measures carried out as part of young forest maintenance are:
   1. ¹ young growth maintenance, thicket maintenance and stem thinning in order to create resistant and adaptable stands suitable to the location;
   2. specific measures to maintain regrowth in selection forests, in other multi-layered forests, in coppices with standards and coppice forests as well as in multi-layered forest margins;
   3. protective measures against damage caused by game;
   4. the creation of paths in areas of difficult access.
3. Thinning and regeneration measures are:
   1. slash removal and the creation of new stands and the necessary accompanying measures;
   2. wood harvesting and transport.
4. Minimum maintenance measures for conserving the protective function of the forest are maintenance interventions that are restricted to ensuring the long-term stability of the stand; felled wood is used locally or left on site, as long as it does not pose a risk.