Early survival and growth of sugar pine and white fir in clear-cut openings

Gilbert H. Schubert

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Early survival and growth of sugar pine and white fir in clear-cut openings

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Gilbert H. Schubert

Year:

1956

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Research Note 117. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, California Forest and Range Experiment Station

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Abstract

The preponderance of white fir regeneration on sugar pine management units has always plagued forest managers in the sugar pine-fir type in the Sierra Nevada. Clear cutting small even-aged groups appears to offer at least a partial solution to this problem. In one recent study more white fir than sugar pine seedlings in openings died within 2 years, and more white firs were damaged by freezing and browsing. As a result sugar pine has a head start in the race for dominance.

Citation

Schubert, Gilbert H. 1956. Early survival and growth of sugar pine and white fir in clear-cut openings. Res. Note 117. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, California Forest and Range Experiment Station. 6 p.