FOR 350 - Silviculture Course Resources

FOR 350 - Silviculture Course Resources

Definitions and Terminology

Supplemental Readings

Book Chapters
The Practice of Silviculture, Smith 1986
The Response of Individual Trees to Thinning and Pruning (ch.2)
Ecology of Regeneration (ch.7)
Oak Forest Ecosystems, McShea 2003
The Ecological Basis for Oak Silviculture in Eastern North America(ch.5)
Timber Management: A Quantitative Approach, Clutter et al.1983
Growing Stock and Stand Density(ch.3)
Yield, Stand, and Volume Tables for Even-aged Upland Oak Forests, Schnur 1937
Table 2 – Excel file
Silviculture in the Central Hardwood Region
Even-aged Silviculture for Upland Central Hardwoods (Roach and Gingrich)
Manager’s Handbook for Oaks in the North Central States (Sander)
Technical Guide to Crop Tree Release in Hardwood Forests (Miller et al.)
Upland Oak Regeneration and Management (Loftis)
Professional Hardwood Notes
Managing Oak Decline (Clatterbuck & Kaufmann)
Oak Shelterwood: A Technique to Improve Oak Regeneration (Stringer)
Hardwood Plantations as an Investment (Tankersley)
Forest Management Strategy to Minimize the Impact of the Gypsy Moth (Clatterbuck & Kaufmann)
Two-aged System and Deferment Harvest (Stringer)
Treatments for Improving Degraded Harwood Stands (Clatterbuck)
Technical Guide to Crop Tree Release in Hardwood Forests (Stringer et al.)
Central Hardwood Notes, USDA Forest Service (website)

Links to Figures from Silviculture Texts(link)

Bibliography for selected figures

Clutter, J.L., J.C. Fortson, L.V. Pienaar, G.H. Brister, and R.L. Bailey. 1983. Timber management: A quantitative approach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 333 p.
Davis, L.S., K.N. Johnson, P. Bettinger, and T.E. Howard. 2001.Forest Management. Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL. 804 p.
Hicks, R.R., Jr. 1998. Ecology and management of Central Hardwood forests. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 412 p.
Johnson, P.S., S.R. Shifley, and R. Rogers. 2002. The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks.
McShea, W.J., and W.M. Healy (eds.). 2003. Oak Forest Ecosystems: Ecology and Management for Wildlife. JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 456 p.
Nyland, R.D. 2002. Silviculture: Concepts and applications. McGraw Hill, Boston, MA. 682 p.
Schnur, G.L. 1937. Yield, stand, and volume tables for even-aged upland oak forests. US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 560. 87 p.
Smith, D.M. 1986. The Practice of Silviculture. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 527 p.
Smith, D.M., B.C. Larson, M.J. Kelty, and M.S. Ashton. 1997. The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 537 p.
Tappeiner, J.C., D.A. Maguire, and T.B. Harrington. 2007. Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests. OregonStateUniversity Press, Corvallis, OR. 440 p.

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