Attaining softwood regeneration following harvest of softwood stands often necessitates site preparation,
planting and control of competitive species including economically and ecologically valuable hardwoods At the landscape
level this strategy may contribute to decreasing stand diversity by favouring replacement of mixedwood stands by hardwood
or softwood stands. Natural dynamics indicate that a silvicultural approach favouring species replacement while, at the
landscape level preserving a representative proportion of hardwood,mixedwood and softwood stands would be more
appropriate The advantageosf such an approacha re discusseidn comparisonw ith current practices