This methodology is applicable to Improved Forest Management (IFM) activities defined by the VCS as those activities implemented on forest lands managed for wood products such as sawn timber, pulpwood, and fuel wood and that are included in the IPCC category “forests remaining as forests”. The conditions under which the methodology is applicable are;

• Project activities aim at the rehabilitation of logged-over natural high forest through direct human intervention such as cutting of climbers and vines, liberation thinning and/or enrichment planting;
  
  
• In the baseline, the logged-over forest in the project area is unlikely to revert to normal re-growth patterns due to excessive amounts of vines and climbers, which may include climbing bamboos, resulting from high intensity logging operations in the past. Therefore, regrowth of tree biomass following secondary logging in the baseline can in some cases be assumed to be zero. Where this is not the case, ex-ante estimates of re-growth must be made and monitoring of the baseline for ex-post confirmation of re-growth rates must be conducted;
  
  

In particular, this methodology is applicable to improved forest management practices that achieve the conversion of low-productive forest to highproductive forest (LtHP) through the protection of logged-over, degraded forest from further logging1 and the adoption of silvicultural techniques increasing the density of trees, in particular the density of commercially interesting species.