Potential management of young-growth stands for understory vegetation and wildlife habitat in southeastern Alaska

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 95-112

  Hanley, Thomas A ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Clearcutting; Even aged forests; Forest management; Picea sitchensis; Silviculture; Tsuga heterophylla

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; EXTRAPOLATION; FORESTRY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOILS; TIMBER;

CONIFER CANOPY; POSTLOGGING SUCCESSION; TIMBER MANAGEMENT; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION;

VEGETATION;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); SILVICULTURE; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; PLANTS; R AND D; SOFTWOODS; SOIL; WILD LIFE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALNUS RUBRA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 14844312003     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.09.015     Document Type: Article

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