Silvicultural treatments

Carl E. Fiedler

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Silvicultural treatments

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Carl E. Fiedler

Year:

2000

Type:

Proceedings

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Smith, Helen Y., ed. 2000. The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: What we have learned: symposium proceedings; 1999 May 18-20; Missoula, MT. Proc. RMRS-P-17. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 19-20

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Abstract

Sustainable, ecologically-based management of pine/ fir forests requires silviculturists to integrate several treatments that emulate historic disturbance processes. Restoration prescriptions typically include cleaning or heavy understory thinning, improvement cutting to reduce the proportion of firs, and modified selection cutting to reduce overall stand density, leading to stands that are moderately open, primarily ponderosa pine, uneven-aged, and large-tree dominated.

Parent Publication

The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: What we have learned

Keywords

ecosystem management, forest succession, social sciences, silvicultural treatments

Citation

Fiedler, Carl E. 2000. Silvicultural treatments. In: Smith, Helen Y., ed. 2000. The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: What we have learned: symposium proceedings; 1999 May 18-20; Missoula, MT. Proc. RMRS-P-17. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 19-20