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Past forestry practices were developed and applied at the stream-reach scale. New forestry focuses on alandscape scale to provide wood products while maintaining ecosystem and community processes. The effectof all forestry practices (e.g., logging, road building, planting, thinning, and slash) on the riparian areas isconsidered since these areas are part of the landscape. In new forestry, more effort is directed in the planningeffort to define site objectives and to understand the implications of each site objective at the landscape scale.This planning provides management with greater flexibility in applying forestry practices to all areas of thelandscape as well as in the riparian areas. New forestry is implemented by using the different forestry practicesto finesse the stream-reach scale to meet the established objectives in terms of the functional relationship at thelandscape scale.