Balancing Economic Productivity and Structural Diversity in Uneven-Aged Management of Spruce fir Forest
Date Published: 2010
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- Ducey, Mark J.
University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Natural Resources and the Environment - Gove, Jeffrey, H.
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Uneven-aged or multi-cohort management represents one possible strategy for meeting a range of goals in spruce-fir forests, including goals related to aesthetics, wildlife habitat, emulation of desired disturbance scales and frequencies, and carbon sequestration. However, existing guidelines for spruce-fir management were developed without explicit attention to these objectives, and may even yield negative discounted financial returns.
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