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This is a 24-acre jack pine stand near Norris Camp in Beltrami Island State Forest, in northern Minnesota. It was clearcut between mid-November and late December, 2007. Slash was scattered across the site. Some scarification occurred during logging. All paper birch, spruce, balsam fir and unmarked...
Estimated year of stand origin:
2008
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
In 2009, the west side of the 22.5 acres were harvested and the later the south side was salvaged cut, to eliminate two-lined chestnut borer in the stand. The objective after cutting was to create an even-aged stand that increased the stocking of northern red oak and maple, essentially making it a...
Estimated year of stand origin:
2003
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
This was an attempt to improve our success with natural jack pine regeneration in Central Rich Dry Pine Woodlands (FDc24) by maintaining a live onsite seed source. It was one of six sites chosen for an Adaptive Forest Management Project, intended to demonstrate creative solutions to persistant...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1968
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
Estimated year of stand origin:
1900
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
Oak wilt first appeared in two sites on the property in 2002. Vibratory plows are not feasible on the site, so an herbicide field trial was initiated in 2003. In these trials, infected trees and healthy trees a certain distance from the infected are treated with an herbicide. Sites continue to be...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1921
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Wisconsin
This is an experimental prescription designed to naturally regenerate red pine under red pine in the face of various economic and ecological constraints. The primary economic constraints consist of 1) the risk of losing high value trees to disturbance, such as windthrow, when retained to serve as...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1928
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
Compare two northern hardwood shelterwood harvests that were logged the same year but with different variables: Fall harvest vs. winter harvest Loamy Fine Sand vs. Fine Sandy Loam
Estimated year of stand origin:
1927
Cover type:
Northern hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
In 1925, Randolph Milton Brown designed a thinning experiment with two treatment levels and a control within a 27-year old stand of jack pine. The experiment was designed to continue research that had begun with a 1912-1914 thinning of a 37-year-old jack pine stand, an installation that lacked a...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1894
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
Discussions with herbicide applicators in the agriculture and lawn care industries suggested that the addition of nitrogen to the Velpar herbicide solution would increase efficacy of the herbicide and increase growth of desired species. We designed this simple field trial to test that idea.
Estimated year of stand origin:
2014
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota

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