Revegetation after strip cutting and block clearcutting in northern hardwoods: a 10-year history

C. Wayne Martin; Hornbeck James W.; Hornbeck James W.

doi:10.2737/NE-RP-625

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Revegetation after strip cutting and block clearcutting in northern hardwoods: a 10-year history

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Authors:

C. Wayne Martin, Hornbeck James W., Hornbeck James W.

Year:

1989

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/NE-RP-625

Source:

Res. Pap. NE-625. Broomall, PA: US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 17 p.

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Abstract

Changes in the density and biomass of trees, shrubs, and herbs were measured periodically over 10 years following a progressive strip cutting and block clearcutting of northern hardwoods. At 10 years after clearcutting, yellow birch was the most numerous commercial or uncommercial tree on the block clearcut; sugar maple on the strip cut. Pin cherry dominated the biomass on the block clearcut and the first set of strips throughout the 10 years; yellow birch and sugar maple on the second and third sets of strips at 10 years.

Keywords

biomass, Hubbard Brook, pin cherry, regeneration, stocking, sugar maple, yellow birch

Citation

Martin, C. Wayne; Hornbeck James W. 1989. Revegetation after strip cutting and block clearcutting in northern hardwoods: a 10-year history. Res. Pap. NE-625. Broomall, PA: US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 17 p.