Improving Oak Timber Quality and Growth through Intermediate Stand Treatments on a Site with Southern Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Southern Dry-Mesic Oak-Hickory Woodland (MNDNR)
Figure 1. Approximately 78 year old red oaks
Red and white pine seed tree (UMN Cloquet Forestry Center)
Red and white pine reserve seed trees facing southeast 2016
Oak Regeneration on a Southern Mesic Oak-Basswood Forest Using Coppice with Reserves Harvest (MNDNR)
Figure 1. Thirty one year old red oak trees from stump sprout origin
Structural Restoration of the Camp 8 Old-Growth Red Pine Stand (UMN-CFC)
Camp 8 in 2009 after a continuation of the treatment in 1984
Comparing regeneration results from fall and winter two-step oak shelterwood harvests (MN DNR)
Photo of oak retained after shelterwood establishment cut.
Gullion Clearcut with Reserves for Ruffed Grouse (UMN-CFC)
Vegetation response 30 years after initiating a two-step oak shelterwood in central mesic hardwoods (MN DNR)
Photo of case study site 30 years after a two-step oak shelterwood was initiated. 3 to 5 inch red oak and maple are shown.
Multi-aged Northern Hardwood Forest (Aitkin County)
Figure 1. Taken in the summer of 2018, the stand has significant structural diversity, but stand growth is being optimized instead of individual tree growth.
Patch Clearcuts and Enrichment Plantings (Blandin)
Figure 1. October 2016, planted white spruce within harvest gap approximately 2 years following brush saw release treatment.

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