sustained-yield

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sustained yield

–noun

1.	the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.

2.	the amount of a resource obtained from such a schedule without depleting the resource.

Related forms:

sustained-yield, adjective

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