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Stand Conditions Immediately Following A Restoration Harvest In An Old-Growth Pine-Hardwood Remnant, Don C. Bragg
Stand Conditions Immediately Following A Restoration Harvest In An Old-Growth Pine-Hardwood Remnant, Don C. Bragg
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
Portions of the Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest (LWDF), a privately owned parcel of old growth pine and hardwoods in Ashley County, Arkansas, were recently treated to restore conditions similar to some historic accounts of the virgin forest. Following a hardwood-only cut, a post-harvest inventory showed that the number of tree species in the sample area declined from 24 in 2006 (the most recent pre-harvest inventory) to 12 in 2009. Loblolly (Pinus taeda L.) and shortleaf (Pinus echinata Mill.) pine now comprise 59.2% of the remaining live trees, up from 16.2% in 2006. Between 2006 and 2009, basal area dropped from …