Balsam fir conservation and red spruce ecosystem restoration initiatives in the West Virginia highlands

Corey A. Bonasso; David W. Saville

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Balsam fir conservation and red spruce ecosystem restoration initiatives in the West Virginia highlands

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Authors:

Corey A. Bonasso, David W. Saville

Year:

2010

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Rentch, James S.; Schuler, Thomas M., eds. 2010. Proceedings from the conference on the ecology and management of high-elevation forests in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. 2009 May 14-15; Slatyfork, WV. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-64. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 233.

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Abstract

The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has been working for more than a decade to protect, conserve, and restore the spruce-fir forests in West Virginia. Beginning in the mid 1990s an effort was initiated to conserve balsam fir in West Virginia where it reaches its southern most extent in North America. This work led to further efforts which have focused on the restoration of the broader red spruce ecosystem that was once prevalent in the West Virginia Highlands.

Parent Publication

Proceedings from the conference on the ecology and management of high-elevation forests in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains

Citation

Bonasso, Corey A.; Saville, David W. 2010. Balsam fir conservation and red spruce ecosystem restoration initiatives in the West Virginia highlands. In: Rentch, James S.; Schuler, Thomas M., eds. 2010. Proceedings from the conference on the ecology and management of high-elevation forests in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. 2009 May 14-15; Slatyfork, WV. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-64. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 233.