[PDF] Low Cost Management Practices For Upland Hardwood Forests eBook

Author : Samuel F. Gingrich
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Forest thinning
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S2After more than 20 years of USDA Forest Service research on the growth and yield of hardwoods in the Central States, we can now confidently make recommendations for the management and culture of upland hardwood stands that are predominantly oak. In this paper I will deal with the first 50 years of stand development under one logical thinning policy. S3.

Author : Charles E. McGee
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Forests and forestry
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Low-quality hardwood stands present opportunity and challenge in the Interior Uplands. This guidebook discusses the primary causes of low-quality hardwood stands and offers management options for regenerating or improving these stands. Methods for evaluating stand and site potential are provided. A technique for comparing stands and prescribing treatment is also suggested.

Author : William D. Walter
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic Dissertations
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Silvopasture is a practice that integrates elements of forest management, pasture management and livestock husbandry in a mutually beneficial manner (Clason and Sharrow, 2000). The term reflects a melding of silviculture and pasture management. The concept of using forested areas to benefit livestock is not new. However, integrating management of timber, forage and livestock to provide mutualistic benefits (i.e. silvopasture) is a novel concept for today's land managers. Although 0.76 of 1.79 million hectares of farm woodlands are currently grazed in Missouri (Vilsack and Clark, 2009), our current knowledge of how to successfully develop a silvopasture practice within hardwood forests is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation is to enhance the understanding of the use of silvopasture practices in regulated, upland hardwood forest pastures. This research reports on the effect of a silvopasture practice on: tree quality, overstory tree growth, underplanted white oak regeneration growth, and tree crown development. In the final chapter a model is developed to express forest development over the eight years following implementation of silvopasture management. Based on the relationship between crown measurements and diameter at breast height, the model expresses crown cover as a percent of a hectare. This model is used to identify future forest manipulations necessary to sustain the desired forest conditions of a silvopasture practice.