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The Carlton County Land Department manages tax-forfeited lands under Minnesota Statute 282. Our objective is to maximize revenue from the lands while managing to diversify our forests and forest assets while supporting the local economy. The lands we manage are also third party certified by the...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1969
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
Case Study Objectives Our main objective was to assess the impacts of post-thinning basal area on epicormic branching in oak species and determine target post-thinning basal area to be incorporated into future thinning practices. An additional objective was to try to assess impacts of tree health...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1923
Cover type:
Other
State or Province:
Minnesota
This case study is an assessment of site conditions after initial stages of a silvicultural prescription designed to regenerate a mature black ash stand to a more diverse young forest. Early stand condition data is presented including tree regeneration species, size and quantity, as well as basic...
Estimated year of stand origin:
2019
Cover type:
Ash
State or Province:
Minnesota
The subject of this case study is a successful red oak stand improvement project initiated on a stand with oak trees of two age classes. The native plant community silvicultural strategy employed was for maintaining MHs37 forests as would natural senescence, disease, or selective windthrow with...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1940
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
This case study describes the results of a red pine and white pine seed tree system initiated in 2003. 110-year-old red and white pines were reserved from harvest in a scattered distribution at a rate of around 7 seed trees per acre. The treatment was conducted in late fall just before freeze-up...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1910
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
This case study is a review of the results of 30 years of regeneration efforts on a bottomland hardwoods stand in the Mississippi River floodplain system in southeastern Minnesota. The native plant community silvicultural strategies on this site were: Large gap: maintain a stand as would selective...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1991
Cover type:
Other
State or Province:
Minnesota
This case study is a review of over 35 years of regeneration efforts on 83 acres of lowland hardwoods in the Mississippi/Vermillion River floodplain system in southeastern Minnesota. Over the years, clearcut with reserves and large and small gap silvicultural systems and natural and artificial...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1984
Cover type:
Other
State or Province:
Minnesota
This study documents a very successful example of oak regeneration after a clearcut with reserves harvest on a Southern Dry Mesic Oak Forest Native Plant Community (NPC). In 2020, 34 years after treatment, the stand contains good stocking of a mixture of tree species that fit the site well, with a...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1986
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
The purpose of this field trial is to assess natural regeneration of red pine using shelterwood and expanding gap regeneration treatments. We will also monitor the health effects on seedlings associated with the fungal disease Diplodia sapinea , which is present on site. To our knowledge, naturally...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1958
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
We used species-area plots, which are nested plots that measure species richness at 11 scales, each plot covering a total of 1024 square meters, to develop species lists on sites that have regenerated following clearcutting. We selected sites that are classified as FDc23 Central Dry Pine Woodland...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1988
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota