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Topic(s):
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Mechanical treatments
Management Approaches
Recovery after fire
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Mechanical treatments
Management Approaches
Recovery after fire
Ecosystem(s):
Montane dry mixed-conifer forest, Ponderosa pine woodland/savanna
NRFSN number: 11891
FRAMES RCS number: 13724
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Sustainable, ecologically-based management of pine/fir forests requires silviculturists to integrate several treatments that emulate historic disturbance processes. Restoration prescriptions typically include cleaning or heavy understory thinning, improvement cutting to reduce the proportion of firs, and modified selection cutting to reduce overall stand density, leading to stands that are moderately open, primarily ponderosa pine, uneven-aged, and large-tree dominated.
Citation
Fiedler, Carl E. 2000. Silvicultural treatments. In: Smith, Helen Y., ed. The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: what we have learned, symposium proceedings; 1999 May 18-20; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-17. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 19-20.