Includes 19 papers documenting presentations at the 1991 Forest Service National Silviculture Workshop. Discussions focus on the role of silviculture in New Perspectives (ecosystem management), new approaches to the practice of silviculture, and examples of successful integration of practices int...
Medina, Alvin L.
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[Glosario en inglés-español de terminología usados en forestales, pastizales, fauna silvestre, pesquería, suelos, y botánica]
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Glosario en inglés-español de terminología usados en forestales, pastizales, fauna silvestre, pesquería, suelos, y botánica
The results of a half-century of experience and research with uneven-aged silviculture within the loblolly-shortleaf pine type of the Southern United States are summarized, and silvicultural guidelines for developing and managing uneven-aged stands are provided in this publication.
Baker, J.B.
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Cain, M.D.
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Guildin, J.M.
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Murphy, P.A.
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Shelton, M.G.
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[Uneven-aged silviculture for loblolly and shortleaf pine a forest Cover types]
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Uneven-aged silviculture for loblolly and shortleaf pine a forest Cover types
Sweet birch (Betula lenta) is also known as black birch and cherry birch. It is commercially less important than the two principal members of the genus, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) and paper birch (Betula papyrifera).
Atlantic white-cedar ((Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) B.S.P.) has been a highly prized species since Colonial times because of the durability and high quality of its wood. The wood has been used for many purposes: boat boards, shingles and lath, framing, house and boat finish, pails and tanks, cabin...
Pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) grows over a wide geographical range - from central Maine to New York and extreme southeastern Ontario, south to Virginia and southern Ohio, and in the mountains to eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and western South Carolina. Because it grows mostly on the poor...
Balsam fir takes its name from the Latin word for balm. Some people know the tree as the Balm-of-Gilead fir. It has also been called the blister fir, because of the bark blisters that yield Canada balsam, a resin that is used for, among other things, mounting microscope slides. The needles of bal...
