Results After 20 Years From A Western Larch Levels Of Growing Stock Study Classic Reprint

Download or read book Results After 20 Years From a Western Larch Levels-of-Growing-Stock Study (Classic Reprint) written by Kenneth W. Seidel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Results After 20 Years From a Western Larch Levels-of-Growing-Stock Study Stand density significantly affected diameter growth, which increased as growing-stock level decreased. During the 20 years after thinning, growth increased average stand diameter by inches in low-density plots compared with inches in high-density plots. Height growth was relatively uniform among density levels, and mortality was negligible, except in 1984 when an ice storm caused a loss of about 4 percent of the study trees at the two highest densities. Both basal-area and total cubic-volume increment increased significantly as stand density increased. Although total cubic volume growth was greatest in high-density plots, wood was added more rapidly to fewer potentially usable trees in the low-density plots. Board-foot growth was greatest in the low-density plots because of the large amount of ingrowth from trees reaching merchantable size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.