Siuslaw thinning and underplanting for diversity study -- Phase II environmental assessment

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2007-05

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Hebo Ranger District (Agency : U.S.)
Central Coast Ranger District (Or.)

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Proposes to continue long-term objectives of learning about effects to overstory trees from overstory density treatments, learning how overstory treatments affect understory trees, and learning how treatments affect understory species diversity. Includes density management treatments reducing the areas with 60 trees per acre to about 17 trees per acre, reducint the areas with 100 trees per acre to about 40 per acre, and measuring thinning and yarding impacts, dead wood decay rates, and artificial and natural recruitment rates of dead wood.

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103 pp. Tables, references, appendices, and maps. Township 17 South, Range 10 West, section 18; the Wildcat site is in Tillamook County—Township 3 South, Range 9 West, sections 9 and 10; and the Yachats site is in Lincoln County—Township 15 South, Range 11 West, section 1. Captured March 3, 2008.

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Forest management -- Oregon -- Siuslaw National Forest, Forest thinning -- Oregon -- Siuslaw National Forest, Forest biodiversity -- Oregon -- Siuslaw National Forest

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