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Study of ecological and stand dynamics changes after a single thinning from below
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Test silvicultural systems that adapt red pine forests to anticipated changes in climate and disturbance regime.
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Test the hypothesis that retaining a live seed source on a FDc23 jack pine harvest site will result in adequate natural jack pine regeneration.
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Regenerate a vigorous stand of jack pine that will be managed on a 48-year rotation in order to achieve timber production objectives as well as Pine Barrens ecological/wildlife objectives within Wisconsin’s Northwest Sands Landscape.
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Regenerate an even-aged stand of merchantable timber that is dominated by jack pine.
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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.
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Demonstrate the results of thinning from below (light), selection (from the top), and thinning from above (heavy crown thinning).
46.373684, -92.801131
Assess effectiveness of Velpar treatment to control understory competition in preparation for establishing natural red pine regeneration under a mature red pine canopy.
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Establish a fully stocked red pine stand from natural regeneration.
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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.
48.027063, -94.15836
Increase white/red pine, decrease aspen
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Clearcut red pine overstory and reinitiate even-aged, early-successional community while observing the effects of different skidding, processing, and biomass retention treatments on artificial and natural jack pine regeneration.
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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 optimize timber returns while initiating a new even-aged stand on a site that has prominent blowdown. Promote and facilitate wildlife habitat.
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Promote and maintain fire-dependent forested community and conduct mid-rotation site preparation through ecocultural prescribed fire.
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Permanent vegetation plots were established within 5 stands in Zone 1 of the Barnes Barrens Management Area (BBMA) as a way to monitor the effects of different herbicide treatments to reduce competition with jack pine while maintaining quality habitat for
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Convert a poor quality aspen / paper birch stand to pine.
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Natural regeneration of jack pine while maintaining a robust native plant community
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Use the seed tree system to naturally regenerate a mixed stand dominated by red and white pine, keeping costs low with no site prep.
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Maintain a multi-aged stand and natural mixed pine regeneration to provide within stand structure that is lacking along this public land dominated sand ridge.
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The objective for this treatment is an even-aged, overstory removal of red pine in order to release white pine advance regeneration.
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To convert a poorly stocked and poor quality birch-dominated stand to pine using aerial seeding.
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Regenerate white and red pine using a shelterwood system and controlling competition with herbicide
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Measure ecological recovery following stand reinitiation and site preparation
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Use prescribed fire to prepare the site, control beaked hazel, and expose mineral soil to favor natural regeneration of white pine and red pine, with a desired future condition of a two-aged mixed pine stand.
48.608, -95.18311
Increase biological diversity of a young jack pine stand through prescribed burning.
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Regenerate an even-aged mix of red pine and white pine using a seed tree system, augmented with low density planting of red pine
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Increase heterogeneity and complexity of stand structure and composition while providing variable canopy cover, density of residual trees, and understory plant community development; establish openings (and later expand) to facilitate regeneration.
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Determine if a selected red pine plantation is declining in growth after a thinning.
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To test an experimental red pine natural regeneration system that balances economic and ecological factors.
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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.
47.76846, -93.04353
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.
47.666093, -92.954166
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.
47.24034, -93.13845
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.
47.715497, -90.87606
Establish white pine as a dominant overstory species.
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Naturally regenerate a mature pine stand to a young mixed pine stand with a significant white pine component through use of prescribed burning and seed tree harvests.
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Uneven aged management in a 115 year old pine stand.
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Regenerate red and white pine through natural seeding
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To regenerate jack pine after clearcutting with reserve trees, at 800 trees per acre with 95% stocking of desirable trees, 75% stocking of jack pine that is free-to-grow.
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This 1984 treatment was designed to demonstrate two types of reserve management: 1) mechanical restoration of open understory treatment, as a demonstration of historical stand structure maintained by surface fire regime, and 2) no treatment.
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Even-aged management to produce successive crops of jack and/or red pine.
46.442952, -92.437795
Develop a more structurally diverse red pine stand while increasing opportunities for natural regeneration while maintaining an economically feasible timber harvest
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Maintain and enhance pine patch by promoting spatial and vertical structure common to older fire-dependent pine forests. Decrease the potential for crown fire and reintroduce the role of disturbance.
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Even aged management of Red Pine. This treatment tested the effect on seedling growth of adding N to Velpar applied for competition control.
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Harvest standing jack pine and aerial seed back to jack pine with mechanical site prep.
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To reserve mature white pine for legacy and open growing space for a new cohort of white pine.
47.243077, -92.121147
To naturally regenerate white and red pine under a shelterwood system using two site prep methods: prescribed burn and salmon blade.
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Release jack pine from hardwood competition.
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
Oak Wilt Control on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Using the Root Rupture Method (USFS)
Cost effective and operationally feasible control of oak wilt in a forested setting.
Cover type: Central hardwoods
Prescribed burning to increase blueberries and ericaceous shrubs (MN DNR)
Increase biological diversity of a young jack pine stand through prescribed burning.
Cover type: Pine