Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest

2006 ◽  
Vol 228 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Sullivan ◽  
Druscilla S. Sullivan ◽  
Pontus M.F. Lindgren ◽  
Douglas B. Ransome
Keyword(s):  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Stand Thinning

Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest

2005 ◽  
Vol 205 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Sullivan ◽  
Druscilla S. Sullivan ◽  
Pontus M.F. Lindgren ◽  
Douglas B. Ransome
Keyword(s):  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Stand Thinning

Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest

2007 ◽  
Vol 240 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 32-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Sullivan ◽  
Druscilla S. Sullivan ◽  
Pontus M.F. Lindgren ◽  
Douglas B. Ransome
Keyword(s):  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Stand Thinning

scholarly journals Long-term influence of stand thinning and repeated fertilization on forage production in young lodgepole pine forests

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 1123-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pontus M.F. Lindgren ◽  
Thomas P. Sullivan ◽  
Douglas B. Ransome ◽  
Druscilla S. Sullivan ◽  
Lisa Zabek
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Contorta ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Bos Taurus ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Stand Density ◽  
Stand Age ◽  
Forage Production ◽  
South Central ◽  
Stand Thinning

Integration of trees with forage and livestock production as silvopastoralism is another potential component of intensive forest management. Stand thinning and fertilization may enhance growth of crop trees and understory forage for livestock. We tested the hypothesis that large-scale precommercial thinning (PCT) (particularly heavy thinning to ≤1000 stems·ha−1) and repeated fertilization, up to 20 years after the onset of treatments, would enhance production of graminoids, forbs, and shrubs as cattle (Bos taurus L.) forage. Results are from two long-term studies: (1) PCT (1988–2013) and (2) PCT with fertilization (PCT–FERT) (1993–2013) of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.) stands in south-central British Columbia, Canada. Mean biomass estimates of graminoids, forbs, total herbs, and shrubs were not affected by stand density. However, fertilization enhanced mean biomass estimates of graminoids, forbs, and total herbs, but not shrubs. Thus, the density part of our hypothesis was not supported, but the nutrient addition part was supported at least for the herbaceous components. Biomass of the herbaceous understory was maintained as a silvopasture component for up to 20 years (stand age 13 to 33 years) in fertilized heavily thinned stands prior to canopy closure.

scholarly journals Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation: Cycling and Succession in Lodgepole Pine Forest

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
W. Romme ◽  
J. Yavitt ◽  
D. Knight
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Pinus Contorta ◽  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle ◽  
Surrounding Areas

A research project was initiated in 1980 to study the effects of outbreaks of the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) on lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta Dougl. ssp. latifolia) in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas. This native insect apparently has long been associated with lodgepole pine, and reports of small numbers of beetles can be found in Park records as early as 1925. However, in the late 1940's and early 1950's major outbreaks began to occur on the Caribou and Targhee National Forests immediately to the west and southwest of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. An outbreak in Grand Teton National Park and the adjacent Teton National Forest began in the 1950's, with an explosive increase in 1961 followed by an eventual subsidence in the late 1960's. The first major outbreak in Yellowstone National Park began in the late 1960's in the Bechler and South Entrance areas, reaching a peak there in 1970 and later declining. Yearly aerial surveys conducted thereafter showed a steady northward movement of the outbreak through the western half of the Park at a rate of 1 - 5 km per year. By 1978 the peak outbreak was centered around West Yellowstone, with hundreds of infested trees per hectare. The outbreak is now moving north and east along the Madison and Gibbon Rivers, with the greatest beetle populations currently in the vicinity of Madison Junction.

Stand dynamics 11 years after retention harvest in a lodgepole pine forest

2018 ◽  
Vol 427 ◽  
pp. 169-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin S. Crotteau ◽  
Christopher R. Keyes ◽  
Sharon M. Hood ◽  
Andrew J. Larson ◽  
Elaine Kennedy Sutherland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Stand Dynamics

scholarly journals Results of an Aerial Spraying Operation Against the Swaine Jack Pine Sawfly, Neodiprion swainei Middleton, in Quebec utilizing the Insecticide Phosphamidon

1968 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Jack Pine ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Pine Sawfly ◽  
Aerial Spraying ◽  
One Year

In August 1965, 135,000 acres of jack pine forest in the St. Maurice Valley, Quebec, were sprayed with Phosphamidon for control of an outbreak of the Swaine jack pine sawfly, Neodiprion swainei Middleton. Applied by spray planes at a rate of 0.2 gallon per acre containing ¼ pounds of active insecticide material, it resulted in 99% mortality of the sawfly, and the threat of defoliation subsided. Phosphamidon applied at [Formula: see text] lb. per acre in a subsidiary test was almost as effective. One year after treatment, the sawfly population remained suppressed in the spray area, with no immediate prospect of resurgence. The treatment did not adversely affect the balance between the sawfly and its parasites, nor cause long-term instability in populations of other insects, birds and mammals living in the forest.

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