Document Type
Report
Publication Date
1995
Abstract
This paper suggests solutions for a longstanding problem in managing lodgepole pine forests -- that of managing individual stands to reach their planned rotation age, despite serious hazard from bark beetles and wildfire. The management regimes presented yield merchantable thinning products. The 80-year sawtimber rotation can be achieved using these management recommendations. Thinning at 30 years of age is central to achieving the recommended alternative management regimes. The authors suggest that agencies give roundwood operators a portion of the thinning stemwood as payment. Management regimes that provide attainable rotations are presented in summary tables, by three site index classes and a number of initial stand density classes.
Recommended Citation
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, "Managing Lodgepole Pine to Yield Merchantable Thinning Products and Attain Sawtimber Rotations" (1995). Forestry. Paper 59.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs_forest/59
Comments
SuDocs call # A 13.78:INT-RP-482