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The Efficacy of Salvage Logging in Reducing Subsequent Fire Severity in Conifer-Dominated Forests of Minnesota, USA

Problem Addressed: Secondary uses for salvage logging.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Assess the impacts of blowdown and salvage logging on wildfire severity
Key Findings: Salvage logging reduced the intensity (heat released) of the subsequent fire, but the effect on severity (impact to the system) differed between the tree crowns and forest floor.
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Forest Management for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Insights from Long-term Silviculture Experiments

Problem Addressed: Climate change effects on forest management
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Address the need of a management regime that simultaneously achieves adaptation and mitigation
Key Findings: Identified trade-offs between achievement of mitigation and adaptation objectives between each study
Views: 902
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Woody Debris Volume Depletion Through Decay: Implications for Biomass and Carbon Accounting

Problem Addressed: Underestimation of decay rates
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop method for estimating changes in log volume through time
Key Findings: Decaying logs have a collapse ratio that can serve as a surrogate for the volume remaining
Recommendation: Accounting for log volume depletion improves biomass-loss and carbon-accounting methods
Views: 1114
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Ecological Impacts of Energy-Wood Harvests: Lessons from Whole-Tree Harvesting and Natural Disturbance

Problem Addressed: Expected impacts of even-aged energy-wood harvesting (EWH) on ecosystem structure and function
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Summarize existing knowledge to anticipate the impacts of EWH on carbon stocks, nutrients, terrestrial biodiversity, and associated aquatic ecosystems.
Key Findings: Harvesting impacts and forest sustainablitliy have relevance for examining potential consequences for biodiversity and aquatic ecosystems
Recommendation: Data is needed to address the longterm ecosystem sustainability of EWH and inform decisions concerning the acceptability of forest-derived wood as an important energy source worldwide
Views: 1091
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Natural disturbance in an old-growth landscape of northern Maine, USA

Problem Addressed: Forest dynamics and succession in old-growth stand in northern Maine.
Key Findings: The abundance of shade-tolerant saplings, coupled with the absence of stand-replacing disturbance, has maintained canopy dominance by shade-tolerant species.
Views: 1023
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Identifying growth releases in dendrochronological studies of forest disturbance

Problem Addressed: Measuring growth releases for reconstructing historical disturbances
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Provide an alternative method for testing growth releases
Key Findings: This absolute-increase method has convenient properties that remedy the shortcomings of the percent-increase method.
Recommendation: No arithmetic method is likely to obviate the need to visually inspect each tree-ring series.
Views: 1012
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Maine Forest and Forest Products Survey – Preliminary Findings

Problem Addressed: How do Maine residents view forests, forestry, and the emerging bioproducts industry.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Explore Maine resident views toward forest conditions, practices, and new forest uses for bioenergy and other products.
Key Findings: Forest sustainability is a key concern both state-wide and in mill towns.
Recommendation: Maine residents express strong support for forestry and forest products. Sustainable harvesting is a precondition, as is stakeholder engagement in the development of new forest-based processing technologies.
Views: 2499
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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.
Views: 2336
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