Thinning is one of the most powerful forest management tools available to landowners for achieving a wide range of goals and objectives.
Thinning influences:
• Trees’ growth rates and potential economic value
• Which species of trees and other plants will be in the stand
• Trees’ resistance to insects...
Although previous research in central Oregon has shown soil compaction can lead to a decline in site productivity, the subject is not understood well enough to predict the growth changes resulting from a given level of soil compaction. A study was initiated to relate the basal area, height and volume...