Average growth rates in the spruce-fir region of New England, based on remeasured plots

C. Allen Bickford; Franklin R. Longwood; Robert Bain

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Average growth rates in the spruce-fir region of New England, based on remeasured plots

Informally Refereed

Authors:

C. Allen Bickford, Franklin R. Longwood, Robert Bain

Year:

1961

Type:

Science Perspectives

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Station Paper NE-140. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 23 p.

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Abstract

The fact that trees grow makes the extraction of logs and bolts from a forest different from the extraction of ore from a mine. Every mine has a limit, and sooner or later it must be abandoned, either because the vein has run out or because the mine has become too costly to operate. But a properly managed forest - one where cutting maintains production - never becomes exhausted by harvesting operations alone.

Citation

Bickford, C. Allen; Longwood, Franklin R.; Bain, Robert. 1961. Average growth rates in the spruce-fir region of New England, based on remeasured plots. Station Paper NE-140. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 23 p.