Semi-natural and intensive silvicultural systems for the boreal mixedwood forest

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 286-292

  Lieffers, V J ^a   Macmillan, R B ^b   MacPherson, D ^c   Branter, K ^d,e   Stewart, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Weyerhaeuser Saskatchewan Ltd   (Canada)

^c Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc   (Canada)

^d Alberta Department of Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

^e Box 1 Sundre   (Canada)

Author keywords

aspen; ecosystem management; Picea glauca; Populus tremuloides; shelterwood; succession; white spruce

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SEMI-NATURAL APPROACH; SEMI-NATURAL SYSTEM; SILVICULTURAL SYSTEM; SILVICULTURE;

ABIES BALSAMEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PINACEAE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SALICACEAE;

EID: 0029660319     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc72286-3     Document Type: Review

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