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Initial spacing of plantations is an important means of shaping future management options and the yield and value of forests, and therefore, the relative growth of a given tree species planted at different initial spacings on a common site is of considerable interest. Seeding survival and 24- to 26-year growth of coastal Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and western red cedar plantations at 2.7 X 2.7-m, 3.7 X 3.7-m, and 4.6 X 4.6-m spacings were studied on the west coast of Vancouver Island.