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Tree Growth Participation in Maine’s Organized Towns

Problem Addressed: Description of land in Maine's Tree Growth Tax 1977 to 2013

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Analyze how area and number of landowners in TGT has changed by county

Key Findings: Tree Growth area has peaked, but remains important in all counties.

Recommendation: Additional research to retain and improve Tree Growth Tax program

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Practical economics of forest ecosystem management: case of Ukrainian Carpathians

Problem Addressed: Longterm planning issues in forest management in Carpathians

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Enrich discussion of issues not addressed in recent formal planning

Key Findings: Planning systems need major improvements; financial soundness of "back to Nature" not certain

Recommendation: Assess practical economic issues more deeply; consider market context

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Two unpublished papers on forest practices regulation

Problem Addressed: Challenges in devising effective forest practice regulations

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Outline the issues in stream corridors and other forest regulations; provide extensive lit. cites.

Key Findings: Papers are old, but the issues persist. Much to learn.

Recommendation: Must get serious about practical research to design better rules

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Estimating timberland parcel value in the northeast United States using acreage and commercial timber value

Problem Addressed: Evaluating market value of timberland can be difficult because of the various factors that influence it

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Assess the relationship between the sale price, commercial timber value (CTV), acreage, and other factors

Key Findings: A strong relationship between sale price, CTV, and acreage was found (R2 = 0.71) with limited variation attributable to year or state

Recommendation: Developed equation may be useful for evaluating future land transactions and establishing baselines in the region

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Influence of partial harvesting and site factors on the abundance and composition of natural regeneration in the Acadian Forest of Maine, USA

Problem Addressed: Understanding the factors regulating the composition and abundance of natural regeneration in Acadian forest ecosystems.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Importance of silvicultural treatment and site factors in structuring the species composition and abundance of natural regeneration.

Key Findings: Overstory and understory vegetation exhibit greater control over regeneration patterns than substrate and soil attributes, or silvicultural treatment, in partially harvested mixedwood stands.

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Long-term compositional dynamics of Acadian mixedwood stands under different silvicultural regimes

Problem Addressed: Forest response to natural disturbances and silvicultural treatments over time

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Tree species composition versus initial composition and harvest disturbance history after 5 decades of silvicultural treatments

Key Findings: Higher harvest intensity increases dominance by early successional species; lighter harvests maintain dominance by late successional species

Recommendation: Sustaining cedar recruitment may require additional silvicultural treatments

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Factors affecting species richness of tree regeneration in mixed-wood stands of central Maine

Problem Addressed: Within-stand spatial variability and tree regeneration

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Species richness of tree regeneration in response to smallscale ecological gradients, and effect of Abies balsamea abundance on species richness of other tree regeneration

Key Findings: Negative associations with A. balsamea regeneration density; large regeneration and overstorey basal area. Positive associations overstorey basal area; small and large regeneration and canopy transmittance.

Recommendation: Tree species diversity in Acadian mixed-wood stands may not be achievable through the use of gap-harvesting alone if the density of understorey Abies balsamea is not reduced

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Developing optimal commercial thinning prescriptions: A new graphical approach

Problem Addressed: Thinning prescriptions for intensive management of stand density

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop an analytical framework to facilitate the application of existing stocking diagrams and stand-growth simulators in formulating density-management regimes

Key Findings: Graphical techniques such as ThinME allow forest managers to effectively explore a variety of commercial thinning prescriptions.

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Height-diameter models with random coefficients and site variables for tree species of central Maine

Problem Addressed: Growth and yield measurements

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Compare height-diameter models for New England tree species using both GNLS and mixed-effects modeling approaches

Key Findings: Mixed-effects approaches were superior to GNLS

Recommendation: Differences in stand structure had a significant influence on the height-diameter relationships

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Forty years of spruce–fir stand development following herbicide application and precommercial thinning in central Maine, USA

Problem Addressed: Long-term stand dynamics for northern forests

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Evaluate the long-term effects of herbicide release and PCT on stand composition and structure; test assumptions about the effects on mixedwood stands

Key Findings: Early herbicide application created softwood-dominated mixedwood stands over the long term; PCT more than doubled merchantable softwood volume

Recommendation: Early PCT dramatically influences the development of spruce-fir stands

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