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We sought strategies to control reed canary grass and eventually return the area to a bottomland forest. Reed canary grass does not reproduce or survive in heavy shade. Techniques included thinning and pruning box elder followed by direct seeding operations in the absence of dense reed canary grass.
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
We sought strategies to control reed canary grass and eventually return the area to a bottomland forest. Techniques included prescribed fire and herbicide followed by direct seeding operations.
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
This is a prospective case study describing a prescription that will be implemented sometime after spring 2018. This stand is located in the Smoky Hills State Forest with in the Smoky Hills High Conservation Value Forest. The goals of this HCVF is to maintain continuous canopy and develop uneven...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1901
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
Fencing treatments were established from 1987 to 1990 to protect vegetation from deer and snowshoe hare browse. Three rectangular exclosures 0.62 acres in size have been monitored since exclosures were established.
Cover type:
Mixed Woods
State or Province:
Minnesota
The goal is to establish a mixedwood stand dominated by aspen, white spruce, and balsam fir with minimal site preparation and release costs. The stand is managed to maintain a healthy, diverse forest that provides timber production, wildlife habitat, and social benefits through the use of...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1969
Cover type:
Mixed Woods
State or Province:
Minnesota
A two entry harvest consisting of cut strips in a 120 year old plus Black spruce /Tamarack type. Designed to allow for natural seeding of the initial cut strips by the initial leave strips, which were subsequently harvested 20 years later. First entry…. K-B Spruce 1, 33 acres Second entry…. K-B...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1870
Cover type:
Spruce
State or Province:
Minnesota
Four agricultural fields were direct seeded with red oak, bur oak, black walnut, black cherry, and green ash in the fall of 2000. Two fields received follow up crop tree release and two had no followup treatment.
Estimated year of stand origin:
2000
Cover type:
Central hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota
A straight-line wind event impacted the St. Croix State Forest & State Park on July 1, 2011. The windstorm damaged 13,000 acres of mixed hardwood and aspen forest. The wind event not only damaged the mature stands of the forest, but impacted sub-merchantable stands of aspen and paper birch 1 to...
Estimated year of stand origin:
2012
Cover type:
Aspen-Birch
State or Province:
Minnesota
This case study looks at the response of a red pine plantation after a thinning. Some field foresters suggested that this stand has not responded to the thinning very well and wanted to know why.
Estimated year of stand origin:
1964
Cover type:
Pine
State or Province:
Minnesota
In 2003 I set up a partial cut sale on 110 acres (stand 17-16-53-15W) designed to increase Yellow Birch stocking, maintain the Paper Birch component and expand the Basswood and not expand or increase Aspen. I marked the desired seed trees of the various species and also marked as many non-...
Estimated year of stand origin:
1908
Cover type:
Northern hardwoods
State or Province:
Minnesota