There is limited information on how to manage young forests of the Pacific
Northwest to benefit wildlife populations. Commercial thinning is becoming more important in young forests both as a tool for timber management and to hasten the
development of old-forest characteristics. There is some evidence that many species of...
In western Oregon, hardwood trees occupy 20% of the
timberland but account for less than 1% of the timber
harvest. Information about how to manage them effectively
is limited.
The objective of this study was to examine: 1)
effect of thinning on tree growth, plant moisture stress,
and crown cover...
A field study was established to explore stand structure and development patterns of
mature, mixed-species forests in the Interior Cedar-Hemlock (ICH) zone: moist cold
subzone of northwestern British Columbia. The species of interest in the study area
were: western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), western redcedar (Thuja
plicata Donn), lodgepole...
A field study was conducted to determine the impact of microclimate and vegetation on
survival and growth of planted Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) at a pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens Bucki.) dominated clearcut in the Interior Douglas-fir Zone of south-central British Columbia. The study focussed on (1) the water balance of...
Western hemlock-Sitka spruce forests, where prior precommercial thinning has occurred, constitute one of the most productive
young-growth management types along the Pacific Coast from Oregon to southeast Alaska. These stands are ready for a first commercial thinning entry, however, the costs and benefits of such entries and resulting impacts at...
The objectives of this research were to study: a) the effect of thinning and treatments consisting of pruning
and multinutrient fertilization on aboveground biolnass increment, growth efficiency (GE), and foliar nutrients;
b) the influence of topoedaphic variables (soil nutrients, slope, aspect, and rock content) and foliar nutrients on both leaf...
Management of habitat for bats requires sound information on their habitat requirements. I used radio telemetry to identify 80 roosts for 24 long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis); 74 roosts were identified for 21 females and 6 roosts for 3 males.
Females primarily used dead and defective conifer trees (n=22) and conifer...
The objective of this research was to determine which
environmental resources, light, water, and nutrients,
control understory plant production and composition in a
Pinus ponderosa forest in northeastern Oregon. A split-plot
experimental design, with three blocks, four
treatments, and 44 plots, was established in the summer of
1985. Twenty plots...