Young-stand management options and their implications for wood quality and other values

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 79-94

  Barbour, R James ^a   Zaborske, Richard R ^b   McClellan, Michael H ^a   Christian, Linda ^b   Golnick, Donald ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Commercial thinning; Lumber; Picea sitchensis; Precommercial thinning; Sitka spruce; Tsuga heterophylla; Western hemlock; Wood quality; Wood supply

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; LAND USE; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC POLICY; VEGETATION;

FOREST VEGETATION SIMULATOR (FVS); WOOD PRODUCT RECOVERY INFORMATION; YOUNG-GROWTH FORESTS;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE; THINNING; WOOD QUALITY;

FORESTRY; INVESTMENT; LAND USE; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SILVICULTURE; WOOD PRODUCTS;

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

EID: 14844336375     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.09.014     Document Type: Article

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