Mechanized row-thinning systems in slash pine plantations

Walter C. Anderson; James E. Granskog

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Mechanized row-thinning systems in slash pine plantations

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Authors:

Walter C. Anderson, James E. Granskog

Year:

1974

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

Res. Pap. SO-103. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 12 p.

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Abstract

Over the next decade or two, most of the 15 to 20 million acres of pine plantations in the South will become ready for a first commercial thinning. The magnitude and nature of the job is illustrated by the situation in slash pine-the most extensively planted of the southern pines.

Citation

Anderson, Walter C.; Granskog, James E. 1974. Mechanized row-thinning systems in slash pine plantations. Res. Pap. SO-103. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 12 p.