Effects of Alternative Thinning Regimes and Prescribed Burning in Natural, Even-Aged Loblolly–Shortleaf Pine Stands: 25 Year Results | Zendy

Michael D. Cain | Zendy; Michael G. Shelton | Zendy

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Effects of Alternative Thinning Regimes and Prescribed Burning in Natural, Even-Aged Loblolly–Shortleaf Pine Stands: 25 Year Results

Author(s) -

Michael D. Cain,

Michael G. Shelton

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

southern journal of applied forestry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1938-3754

pISSN - 0148-4419

DOI - 10.1093/sjaf/27.1.18

Subject(s) - thinning , loblolly pine , forestry , crop , crown (dentistry) , stocking , pinus <genus> , environmental science , agronomy , biology , agroforestry , botany , geography , medicine , dentistry

In southeastern Arkansas, pine growth was monitored for 19 yr after mechanically strip thinning a dense, naturally regenerated, even-aged stand of Gyr-old loblolly pines (Pinus taeda L.) and shortleafpines (P. echinata Mill.) that averaged 16,600 stems/UC. Prescribed winter burns were conducted biennially between ages 9 and 20 yr and at 24 yr. Commercial thinnings during the 17th and 23rd growing seasons left a residual stocking of either SSf$/ac or 200 crop trees/at (7.5ft2/ac) in merchantable-sized (>3.5 in. dbh)pines on plots that wereprecommercially thinnedand on plots that were not. Precommercial thinning

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