Beetle-killed stands in the South Carolina piedmont: from fuel hazards to regenerating oak forests

Aaron D. Stottlemyer; G. Geoff Wang; Tom Waldrop

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Beetle-killed stands in the South Carolina piedmont: from fuel hazards to regenerating oak forests

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Authors:

Aaron D. Stottlemyer, G. Geoff Wang, Tom Waldrop

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. p. 320.

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Abstract

Impacts of spring prescribed fire, mechanical mastication, and no-treatment (control) on fuels and natural hardwood tree regeneration were examined in beetle-killed stands in the South Carolina Piedmont. Mechanical mastication ground the down and standing dead trees and live vegetation into mulch and deposited it onto the forest floor. The masticated debris layer had an average depth of 15 cm and loading of 503 Mg ha^-1 in the first year (Yr 1) post-treatment.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Citation

Stottlemyer, Aaron D.; Wang, G. Geoff; Waldrop, Thomas A. 2012. Beetle-killed stands in the South Carolina piedmont: from fuel hazards to regenerating oak forests. 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. p. 320.