Effects of Thinning and Fertilizing on the Growth of 36-year-old Height-repressed Lodgepole Pine

Effects of Thinning and Fertilizing on the Growth of 36-year-old Height-repressed Lodgepole Pine
Author: Teresa A. Newsome
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Total Pages: 4
Release: 2002
Genre: Forest soils
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In Cariboo Forest Region, fires have created many young, very dense lodgepole pine stands that are not expected to produce merchantable timber if left untreated. In 1997, an operational trial at the Rosita Fire was established to answer the fundamental question of how dense wildfire-origin lodgepole pine should be managed. This Extension Note provides early stand-tending results of that work. The main stand-tending objective of the trial was to determine if thinning and fertilization, alone and in combination, can increase the growth of height-repressed pine. A secondary objective was to provide a demonstration site of treatments tested.

Thinning Lodgepole Pine in Southeastern British Columbia

Thinning Lodgepole Pine in Southeastern British Columbia
Author: Wayne David Johnstone
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
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This report discusses the effects, 46 years after treatment in 1952-53, of the thinning of a 53-year-old lodgepole pine stand growing in south-east British Columbia. At the study plots in the montane spruce biogeoclimatic zone, five thinning treatments plus unthinned controls were established. Results are presented with regard to effects of thinning treatments on tree diameter, tree height & volume, survival, stand basal area, and stand volume. In 1980-83, the stand was infested by mountain pine beetle, and the results also demonstrate the effect of thinning on pine response to beetle attack.