Should ponderosa pine be planted on lodgepole pine sites?

P.H. Cochran

doi:10.2737/PNW-RN-419

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Should ponderosa pine be planted on lodgepole pine sites?

Informally Refereed

Authors:

P.H. Cochran

Year:

1984

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-RN-419

Source:

Res. Note PNW-RN-419. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6 p

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Abstract

Repeated radiation frosts caused no apparent harm to the majority of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.) seedlings planted on a pumice flat in south-central Oregon. For most but not all of the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl.) seedlings planted with the lodgepole pine, however, damage from radiation frost resulted in reduced height growth.

Keywords

radiation frost, pumice soil, lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa

Citation

Cochran, P.H. 1984. Should ponderosa pine be planted on lodgepole pine sites?. Res. Note PNW-RN-419. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 6 p