Question: A lumber company harvests trees and then plant new seedlings so there will be trees to harvest in the future. It takes about 10 years for a tree to mature to cutting size. Each year the company harvests 10% of the trees from that land it owns. Most of the time, the company clear cuts an area, meaning they cut down all the trees in a certain plot of ground before replanting the entire parcel. The lumber company believes that this provides the most lumber from a parcel of land An environmental group believes that selective cutting and replanting actually produces more lumber from a parcel.

(A) Design a twenty year study to determine which method will produce the most lumber. You have access to 40 three acre parcels on a mountainside in Idaho. Half the plots are on the north side of the mountain and half are on the south side. All parcels are essentially similar in all major respects. Be specific in your description. You may use diagrams in your explanation.