... procedures in which different classes of datawere left out based on different characteristics (i.e. site index,growth region, year of birth and thinning intensity) resulted in only a small increase in ... number of mea-surement occasions totalled 2065.The data included a wide range of different treatments in terms of initial spacing and thinning practices from unthinned control plots toheavily thinned ... plots. In the thinning experiments, the treatments in- cluded A-, B-, C-, and D-grade thinnings, and in some cases evenheavier thinnings. Usually, the D-grade is thinned to a basal area of 50%...