Northern Hardwood Notes

Titles contained within Northern Hardwood Notes

• What are northern hardwoods?
• Lake states management differs from northeast
• Management methods and silvicultural systems: what are they?
• Even-age versus all-age management
• Selecting a silvicultural system
• Applying the shelterwood system
• A worksheet for shelterwood marking
• Clearcutting as a silvicultural system
• A case history of all-age management
• A case history of even-age management
• Relative tolerance of hardwood and associated conifer seedlings
• Seed crop frequency in northeastern Wisconsin
• Optimum germination temperatures
• Regenerating yellow birch in the Lake States
• Regenerating eastern hemlock in the Lake States
• Prescribed burning for the birches and hemlock
• Hardwood planting
• Direct seeding
• Sowing pregerminated northern red oak acorns
• Rodent influence on regeneration
• Thinning sprout clumps
• Growth and development of browsed seedlings
• Determining site index accurately in even-aged stands
• Site index comparisons among hardwoods
• Residual stocking levels
• A worksheet for marking AH-aged stands
• A worksheet for marking even-aged stands
• Stocking level, stand structure, cutting cycle, and growth rates
• Diameter limit cutting
• Strip cutting in northern hardwoods
• What to do with northern hardwood-aspen mixtures
• Releasing yellow birch saplings and poles
• Epicormic sprouting
• Fork occurrence and correction
• Growth and yield for managed and unmanaged stands
• Stand weights
• Variation in seasonal moisture content
• Economic maturity of sugar maple
• Lumber value and rate of return for sugar maple
• Persistent insect, disease, and climatic problems
• Recognizing and preventing maple decline
• Dutch elm disease
• Sapstreak disease of sugar maple
• Tree injuries from mechanized logging
• Minimizing yellow-bellied sapsucker damage
• Making wildlife openings
• Woody browse production
• Management Methods and Silvicultural Systems: What Are They?

Citation

Hutchinson, Jay G. 1992. Northern Hardwood Notes. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Froest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station.