Practical breeding programs for jack pine in the Lake States

James P. King

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Practical breeding programs for jack pine in the Lake States

Informally Refereed

Authors:

James P. King

Year:

1973

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Joint Proceedings of the Tenth Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference and the Seventh Central States Forest Tree Improvement Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-3. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 45-49

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Abstract

Jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) is the most common pine in the Lake States and is expected to play an increasingly important role in Lake States planting programs. This species is easy to plant successfully even on dry, sandy soils. Its rapid growth during the first 30 years makes it suitable for intensive-culture, short-rotation forestry. And it is suitable for kraft process pulping - particularly important because of the expanding kraft mill capacity in the Lake States.

Parent Publication

Joint proceedings of the 10th Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference & 7th Central States Forest Tree Improvement Conference, September 22-24, 1971.

Citation

King, James P. 1973. Practical breeding programs for jack pine in the Lake States. In: Joint Proceedings of the Tenth Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference and the Seventh Central States Forest Tree Improvement Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-3. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 45-49