• Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth
  University of Maine Graduate School
  

Long-term silvicultural experiments are used to study growth and yield at multiple temporal and spatial scales in forestry. Differences in forest type, stand characteristics, site conditions, and silvicultural system implemented affect outcomes across studies. Due to their varied implementation and methodologies, it is difficult to compare results across experiments at different locations, i.e. on different experimental forests. This study investigates the required effort and potential conclusions that can be garnered using previously collected data from independent long-term U.S. Forest Service silvicultural studies across a subset of Northern Forest types.