Ice damage effects on thinned loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) stands in southeastern Oklahoma

Thomas Hennessey; Robert Heinemann; Randal Holeman; Rodney Will; Thomas Lynch; Douglas Stevenson; Edward Lorenzi; Giulia Caterina

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Ice damage effects on thinned loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) stands in southeastern Oklahoma

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Authors:

Thomas Hennessey, Robert Heinemann, Randal Holeman, Rodney Will, Thomas Lynch, Douglas Stevenson, Edward Lorenzi, Giulia Caterina

Year:

2012

Type:

Paper

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Butnor, John R., ed. 2012. Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-156. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 144-145.

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Abstract

Loblolly pine plantations in southeastern Oklahoma and Arkansas are periodically subjected to damaging ice storms. Following one such event, damage to a 25-year-old, previously thinned stand was assessed and quantitative relationships were developed to guide stand management in ice storm-prone areas.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Citation

Hennessey, Thomas; Heinemann, Robert; Holeman, Randal; Will, Rodney; Lynch, Thomas; Stevenson, Douglas; Lorenzi, Edward; Caterina, Giulia. 2012. Ice damage effects on thinned loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) stands in southeastern Oklahoma. In: Butnor, John R., ed. 2012. Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-156. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 144-145.