Rehabilitation and long-term park management of cutover redwood forests: problems of natural succession
Veirs SD and Lennox WS. 1981. Rehabilitation and long-term park management of cutover redwood forests: problems of natural succession. Pages 50-55. In Veirs SD and Lennox WS (ed): Proceedings of a symposium on watershed rehabilitation in Redwood National Park and other Pacific Coastal areas. Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. August 24-28, 1981. Center for Natural Resource Studies of JMI, inc./National Park Service. Berkeley, CA
This paper notes that in the effort to re-establish natural redwood stands on previously logged areas, experimentation can help in understanding dynamics of both second-growth and old-growth areas. Some management activities may speed the recovery process, estimated according to study results to take centuries if left alone. A tendency for over-representation of Douglas firs in second-growth may be balanced through thinning of young stands, and other methods are suggested for increasing the resemblance to old-growth stands. (The report is concerned with upland, rather than alluvial, stands; it discusses redwood and Douglas fir, but not roles of other associated plants.) Two illustrations show densities of the two major conifers under a range of conditions, and linear regressions of density changes over time. Data from the study may be useful for predictive models.
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- Conference Proceeding Paper
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- Veirs, Stephen; Lennox, William
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- REDW
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- climax, Coast Redwood, Distribution (Biodiversity), Douglas-Fir, Ecology, Logging, Management, Old Growth, Presence (Biodiversity), Pseudotsuga menziesii, Redwood Creek Basin, Redwood Forest, Rehabilitation, Restoration, Sequoia sempervirens, stand dynamics, Taxa Links To References