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Establish oak regeneration while comparing several different silvicultural strategies and techniques.
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Increase stand resilience by increasing species diversity (promoting cool climate-dependent tree species) and structural complexity following a commercial timber harvest.
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Increase stand resilience by increasing species diversity (promoting cool climate-dependent tree species) and structural complexity through brush control site preparation and artificial regeneration (conifer planting).
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Use a prescribed burn followed by direct seeding to return a reed canary grass area to bottomland hardwood.
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Manage Pennsylvania sedge and ironwood in order to facilitate northern hardwood regeneration.
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To return areas with dense reed canary grass to bottomland hardwood forests.
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To use a two-cut shelterwood system with deer browse protection (exclosures) to maintain northern red oak as a component of Central Dry-Mesic Oak-Aspen-Red Maple Forest
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Regenerate a mature stand of aspen to a young stand of similar composition while reducing the future spread of buckthorn.
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Reduce buckthorn and other shrub competition and establish planted red pine seedlings in a recently harvested oak stand transitioning to oak-pine mixed species stand
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Regenerate a mature lowland hardwoods stand to a young stand of similar composition.
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Regenerate a mature lowland hardwoods stand to a young stand of similar composition.
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Keep the site forested and increase resilience by improving diversity and removing invasive species.
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Use an interdisciplinary approach to create a large young forest patch more representative of natural disturbances in boreal landscapes.
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To restore native plant communities and habitats by removing both native and exotic woody vegetation as well as to utilize the removed biomass material for bioenergy.
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To restore native plant communities and habitats by removing both native and exotic woody vegetation as well as to utilize the removed biomass material for bioenergy.
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Better understand the relationship between Carex pennsylvanica and Carex pedunculata, deer browse, and regeneration of quality northern hardwood species in a way to create future management options to promote seedling success.
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Promote regeneration of floodplain tree species and prevent conversion of site to reed canary grass. Provide wildlife habitat for the next 50 to 100 years.
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Salvage storm damaged trees and ensure that site is adequately regenerated to bottomland hardwoods rather than converting to reed canary grass.
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Change stand structure to a multi-aged stand while maintaining similar stand species and structure. Compare gap sizes to see which encouraged the most positive regeneration of oak.
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Determine best silvicultural method for paper birch regeneration.
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Measure ecological recovery following stand reinitiation and site preparation
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The silvicultural objective is to establish native tree cover and determine more effective methods of controlling reed canary grass.
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Use natural and artificial regeneration practices to regenerate a natural origin red pine site with characteristics that mimic a natural origin stand in structure and diversity, while maintaining red pine as the dominant species.
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Regenerate mature lowland hardwood stands to young stands of similar composition.
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Establish a fully stocked stand of naturally and artificially occurring floodplain forest tree species on a former hayfield now dominated by invasive reed canary grass through site preparation and direct tree seeding.
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Establish white pine as a dominant overstory species.
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The goal of this harvest is to regenerate the oak/hickory type, encouraging all oak species.
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Restore this wetland to a culturally useful forested condition that is more resilient to human stressors, particularly climate change, than the previous forest.
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Regenerate a mature oak stand to a young stand of similar composition.
Pre-commercial aspen thinning (UPM Blandin)
Utilize pre-commercial thinning in a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) stand to increase diameter growth and decrease rotation age.
Cover type: Aspen-Birch
Swamp tree planting using mounding (Fond du Lac)
Restore this wetland to a culturally useful forested condition that is more resilient to human stressors, particularly climate change, than the previous forest.
Cover type: Ash
Comparing Pine Regeneration Methods and Tactics in the Cloquet Valley State Forest (MN DNR)
The goal on all three stands was to decrease the overall abundance of trembling aspen, paper birch, and balsam fir while increasing the abundance of long-lived conifers such as red pine, white pine, white, and black spruce.
Cover type: Pine
Goose Island Deer Repellent Test (US Army Corps)
The objective of the planting was to test the effectiveness of deer fence and animal protein-based deer repellent on growth and survival of swamp white oak and river birch seedlings.
Cover type: Other
Mississippi River Pool 3 Floodplain Forest Silvicultural Trials (US Army Corps of Engineers)
Promote regeneration of floodplain tree species and prevent conversion of site to reed canary grass. Provide wildlife habitat for the next 50 to 100 years.
Cover type: Other
Variable Overstory Density Management for White Pine Regeneration in Two Native Plant Communities (MN DNR)
Establish or maintain uneven aged pine-mixed hardwood stands with a significant white pine component using natural regeneration.
Cover type: Mixed Woods
Shelterwood and slash walls to regenerate northern red oak and eastern hemlock (USFS)
Objectives of this stand include a shelterwood harvest, tending of the stand via understory cutting, constructing a slash wall for deer exclusion, and evaluating the effectiveness of excluding deer and the natural regeneration success.
Cover type: Northern hardwoods
Direct Seeding of Hardwoods on a Former Agricultural Site with Observations on Soil Compaction (MN DNR)
Improve water quality, wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation opportunities and produce forest products by establishing a mixed hardwood stand on a former agricultural field.
Cover type: Other
Fuels Reduction Thinning in Multi-Aged Red Pine (UMN-CFC)
To lower stand density in a spatially heterogeneous fashion, reduce fuel-loading in a mature stand by disconnecting foliage between the canopy and sub-canopy, and increase aesthetic appeal of a multi-aged red pine stand.
Cover type: Pine
Oak Scarification Trials using Good Neighbor Authority (USFS/WDNR)
Promote mixed oak-pine stands for quality sawtimber and wildlife habitat associated with the Northern Dry-Mesic Forest natural community. Test various mechanical scarification techniques to create favorable seedbeds and increase oak and white pine regen.
Cover type: Central hardwoods