Forestry experience in raising larch cultures in the center of Russian plain

On the basis of 50-year studies, the experience of growing european larch in forest cultures of K. F. Tyurmer in Moscow and Vladimir regions and in Nikolskaya forest estate in the North-East of Moscow is analyzed. Cultures were grown by various methods using different schemes of mixing species. The results of long-term studies of these cultures are presented. Until the age of 30-40 years larch is significantly inferior in the growth rate of pine, and later ahead of it. Intensive tending of plantation at a young is required to maintain larch in mixed plantations with pine. In the future, larch inhibits pine and gradually almost completely replaces it, forming high-performance larch stands. In the forest cultures of K. F. Tyurmer in the Moscow region at the age of 130-150 years, we had a large stock of larch trees on permanent sample plots (PSP). After 150 years, the stock of plantings begins to decline, the main reason is the windthrow, due to the abnormal height of the plantings...