Implementation of a thinning and burning study in tanoak-redwood stands in Santa Cruz and Mendocino counties

Kevin L. O?Hara; Kristen M. Waring

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Implementation of a thinning and burning study in tanoak-redwood stands in Santa Cruz and Mendocino counties

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Kevin L. O?Hara, Kristen M. Waring

Year:

2008

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Frankel, Susan J.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M., tech. coords. 2008. Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-214. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 417-418

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Abstract

Three silvicultural treatment study sites are being established to examine the effects of thinning and prescribed burning on infection and spread of Phytophthora ramorum. Study sites are located in Mendocino and Santa Cruz counties, California. Stands are even-aged redwood/tanoak mixtures.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium

Keywords

Phytophthora ramorum, Sequoia sempervirens, Lithocarpus densiflora, thinning, prescribed burning

Citation

O?Hara, Kevin L.; Waring, Kristen M. 2008. Implementation of a thinning and burning study in tanoak-redwood stands in Santa Cruz and Mendocino counties. In: Frankel, Susan J.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M., tech. coords. 2008. Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-214. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. pp. 417-418