Dear etaoin: I think "coppice management" in some cases means harvesting branches for firewood. while leaving the tree to grow more branches. Here in Van Nuys big trees quickly get sickly when their tops expand beyond the capacity of root to expand, because of turf being replaced by asphalt. They cut all the branches four inches in diameter off, so that I thought the trees would die. But they recover amazingly rapidly. To bad there is no demand for
firewood here.