This study evaluated the effects of partial cutting on stand structure and growth,
patterns of conifer regeneration, stand mortality and disease, and understory plant diversity
and abundance. Seventy-three 1/5 ha plots were established in 18 partially cut stands
throughout southeast Alaska. These stands were partially cut 12 to 96 years...
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 study were to determine the species composition and density of natural conifer regeneration following selective logging in southeast Alaska.
Therefore, we quantified the density and size of new cohort spruce and hemlock and current seedling bank in 17 selectively logged stands. All stands were in mixed...