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Establish oak regeneration while comparing several different silvicultural strategies and techniques.
47.5043, -91.9072
Increase stand resilience by increasing species diversity (promoting cool climate-dependent tree species) and structural complexity following a commercial timber harvest.
47.362925, -91.043965
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).
47.103709, -91.572081
Enhance current and future species diversity and structural complexity by ensuring successful tree recruitment into sapling/small tree size classes currently absent from the stand.
43.846417, -92.18994
Use a prescribed burn followed by direct seeding to return a reed canary grass area to bottomland hardwood.
46.11981, -90.423044
Manage Pennsylvania sedge and ironwood in order to facilitate northern hardwood regeneration.
43.842362, -92.18504
To return areas with dense reed canary grass to bottomland hardwood forests.
46.101808, -92.481827
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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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.
45.313064, -93.79872
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.
44.869536, -88.904822
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.
44.523547, -92.435569
Regenerate a mature red oak stand to a young stand of similar composition, using natural regeneration with well-timed mechanical site preparation.
46.761258, -92.743935
Determine best silvicultural method for paper birch regeneration.
46.775838, -94.890726
Measure ecological recovery following stand reinitiation and site preparation
48.608, -95.18311
Increase biological diversity of a young jack pine stand through prescribed burning.
44.665304, -92.731634
Regenerate mature lowland hardwood stands to young stands of similar composition.
43.77772, -91.17246
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 an even-aged mixed woods stand comprised of jack pine, aspen, paper birch, and balsam fir.
47.715497, -90.87606
Establish an even-aged mixed woods stand comprised of aspen, white spruce, balsam fir, and white pine.
47.715497, -90.87606
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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Maintain the northern hardwood timber type through an even-aged silvicultural system of shelterwood with reserves.
1925 Jack Pine Thinning Study and 2015 Replicates (UMN Cloquet Forestry Center)
Study of ecological and stand dynamics changes after a single thinning from below
Cover type: Pine
1979 Paper Birch Shelterwood (UMN Cloquet Forestry Center)
To regenerate paper birch
Cover type: Aspen-Birch
33 Years of Northern Hardwood Management (Ashland County)
Regenerate northern hardwoods species to maintain the northern hardwoods covertype.
Cover type: Northern hardwoods
5 Year Oak Wilt Containment Study (WI DNR)
Stop the below-ground spread of an active oak wilt pocket in order to maintain oaks into the future.
Cover type: Northern hardwoods
A Comparison of Establishment Methods for Northern Red Oak Regeneration in a Southern Dry-Mesic Oak Forest (MN DNR)
Regenerate a mature red oak stand to a young stand of similar composition.
Cover type: Central hardwoods