Coppicing is an ancient form of woodland management, that involves repetitive felling on the same stump, near to ground level, and allowing the shoots to regrow from that main stump. There is little or no commercial use of this forest technique in Coastal BC because logging here is concentrated on soft woods. You will see Maple trees coppice almost anywhere they have been cut off near the ground and not treated. This cache is on a maple coppice that occurred due to some natural injury. The photo above shows willow that has coppiced after beaver have harvested the stems, sights like this are normal around beaver ponds and the coppicing increases the availability of food for these rodents.