Intensive plantation management for good-site forest lands in northwest Ontario

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-53

  Carmean, Willard H ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest land zonation; Site quality evaluation tools; Site specific silviculture; Stand and landscape diversity

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CONSERVATION; TIMBER; WOOD PRODUCTS;

FOREST LAND ZONATION; LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY; SITE QUALITY EVALUATION TOOLS; SITE SPECIFIC SILVICULTURE;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LAND USE; PROTECTED AREA; SILVICULTURE; TIMBER MARKET; TREE PLANTING; WOOD QUALITY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PRODUCTS; ONTARIO; PLANTATIONS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 35548989334     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc83041-1     Document Type: Review

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