In some cases it is; in others it's not enough. That's what's wrong with State specifications calling the shots.
Most of these idiots think that a forest is composed only of trees. They wouldn't recognize a multi-aged stand with full cohorts of groundcovers, grasses, and shrubs if they saw one.
Much of our national forests are choked with chemise and conifer seedlings, and little natural forest really exists these days.
Only that part that is privately owned bears any resemblence to a real forest.