Site Quality Evaluation Site Quality Maintenance And Site Specific Management For Forest Land In Northwest Ontario

Download or read book Site-quality Evaluation, Site-quality Maintenance, and Site-specific Management for Forest Land in Northwest Ontario written by Willard H. Carmean and published by Thunder Bay : Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Northwest Science and Technology. This book was released on 1996 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is directed toward the evaluation and classification of forest land in north-west Ontario for timber production, with the primary objective of providing tools for a quantitative evaluation of the capability of forest land to produce tree growth. The first few chapters describe methods for estimating forest site quality, including direct methods based on measuring site index from standing trees and indirect methods based on soil and topographic features. The manual also provides a complementary framework showing relationships between site quality, forest-landscape classification, and growth and yield. This framework accommodates other land values that are in addition to timber production. A final chapter suggests how application of this integrated framework can produce a diversified forest landscape having a spectrum of management intensities, a variety of site-specific silvicultural practices, and a variety of forest land values and uses.