Snow breakage in a pole-sized ponderosa pine plantation ... more damage at high stand-densities

Robert F. Powers; William W. Oliver

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Snow breakage in a pole-sized ponderosa pine plantation ... more damage at high stand-densities

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Robert F. Powers, William W. Oliver

Year:

1970

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Res. Note PSW-RN-218. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p

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Abstract

Damage by snow breakage to pole-sized ponderosa pine (Pinus pondvosa Laws.) increased as stand density increased. In a plantation on the west slope of California's Sierra Nevada, the tallest trees were most often broken. Thinning in the sapling stage is recommended as a preventative measure in dense plantations subject to heavy snowfall.

Keywords

Pinus ponderosa, plantation establishment, stand density, snow breakage, precommercial thinning

Citation

Powers, Robert F.; Oliver, William W. 1970. Snow breakage in a pole-sized ponderosa pine plantation ... more damage at high stand-densities. Res. Note PSW-RN-218. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p