Hardwood plantation development especially when the objective is long term quality sawtimber production and wildlife habitat.
Broadfoot and krinard 1961 growth of hardwood plantations.
Further replicated pure plantings of each species are necessary to serve as.
Fagaceae beech family.
Several weaknesses in the present study include the lack of stand level replication within and among the different plantation spacings.
Recent work in even aged mixed species natural hardwood stands indicates changes in species dominance occurs over time oliver 1978 bowling and kellison 1983 clatterbuck et al 1985 clatterbuck and hodges 1988 johnson and krinard 1988.
P y g gy p gy y broadfoot w.
3 5 mg ha 1 yr 1 under lower intensity management fertilization at planting.
Plantations krinard and kennedy 1987.
Results reveal that plantation grown cy press may grow as well as or better than other hardwood species growing in loess soil in small unthinned plantings for a similar period of time broadfoot andkri nard 1961.
Hardwood suitability for and properties.
This medium to large southern oak with willowlike foliage is known for its rapid growth and long life.
Diameters of pruned limbs measured 2 inches from the main bole ranged from to 3 inches on cottonwood and to 2 inches on the oaks.
Water tupelo nyssa aquatica also called cottongum sourgum swamp tupelo tupelo gum and water gum is a large long lived tree that grows in southern swamps and flood plains where its root system is periodically under water it has a swollen base that tapers to a long clear bole and often occurs in pure stands.
About 100 branches some living and some dead were removed in each stand.
Species that are dominant during the early years of stand establishment tend to become subordinate.
Growth of three hardwood species through 18 years on a former agricultural bottomland.
Annual review of ecology and systematics 10 351 371.
Willow oak quercus phellos also known as peach oak pin oak and swamp chestnut oak grows on a variety of moist alluvial soils commonly on lands along water courses.
The top 10 percent or 30 cypress trees per acre in this study ranged from 9 8 to 14 0 inches dbh and averaged 11 1 inches after.
Growth of hardwood plantations on bottoms in loess areas.
The willow oaks were part of a dense second growth stand 25 to 30 years of age.
