Title:

Overstory and regeneration data from the "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest (2nd Edition)

Author(s):

Kenefic, Laura S.; Gerndt, Kathryn M.; Puhlick, Joshua J.; Kuehne, Christian

Publication Year:

2019

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Kenefic, Laura S.; Gerndt, Kathryn M.; Puhlick, Joshua J.; Kuehne, Christian. 2019. Overstory and regeneration data from the "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0024-2

Abstract:

This data package contains crop tree, overstory, sapling, and regeneration data collected at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine between 2008 and 2017. These data were collected as part of the project titled "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands: An economic and silvicultural assessment of alternatives" as described in Appendix C of FS-NRS-07-08-01 "Silvicultural effects on composition, structure and growth of northern conifers in the Acadian Forest Region 2008 study plan" (also known as the Compartment Management Study, see Kenefic et al. 2015). While the Rehabilitation study was conducted within two management units (MUs) of the Compartment Management Study (CMS) the data for the Rehabilitation study are independent of the CMS. The Rehabilitation study examined two levels of intervention treatments against controls in two stands that had been subjected to repeated commercial clearcutting harvests, last occurring 20 and 25 years before. The intervention treatments were 1) moderate treatment, in which crop trees were identified and released, and 2) intensive treatment, in which crop trees were released, unacceptable growing stock was removed, and fill planting of red spruce was conducted. Available data include crop tree species, locations, diameter at beast height (DBH), height, and mortality; overstory species, locations, and DBH; regeneration tally by species; and sapling species and DBH.

Keywords:

biota; Forest & Plant Health; Botany; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; silviculture; species composition; timber supply; forest management; forest stand dynamics; tree regeneration; tree and stand growth; tree height; tree crown; canopy; crown width; balsam fir; red spruce; woody plants; timber stand improvement; crop tree release; precommercial thinning; northern conifers; Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine

Related publications:

• Kenefic, Laura S.; Knapp, Rachel A.; Waskiewicz, Justin D.; Wilson, Jeremy S. 2016. Overstory and regeneration data from the "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest. 1st Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 13 January 2017 https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0024
• Kenefic, Laura S.; Bataineh, Mohammad; Wilson, Jeremey S.; Brissette, John C.; Nyland, Ralph D. 2014. Silvicultural Rehabilitation of Cutover Mixedwood Stands. Journal of Forestry. 112(3): 261-271. https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/46375 https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.13-033
• Puhlick, Joshua J.; Kuehne, Christian; Kenefic, Laura S. 2019. Crop tree growth response and quality after silvicultural rehabilitation of cutover stands.. Canadian Journal of Forest Resources. 49(6): 670–679. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0248

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