This study was started in 1947 to investigate the value of various types and quantities of seed source in the establishment of reproduction on cutover land, and to determine the apparent effects of various man-made and natural factors upon the rate of restocking. The man-made and natural factors to be...
A severe wildfire burned 454 hectares of a second-growth Douglas-fir forest
in 1977 on a north-facing slope in Pattee Canyon, near Missoula, Montana. The
slope was aerially seeded with a grass mixture, from which Dactylis glomerata
established best. Community structure, conifer regeneration, and the impact of the
seeded grass on...
Although buffer strips have long been used as a
protection tool when logging near streams, long-term
studies investigating buffer strip dynamics are rare.
Steinblums et al. (1984) inventoried 40 buffer strips 1 to
15 years old in the western Oregon Cascades beginning in
the summer of 1975. Numerous site and...