An Inventory of Forest Resources: Nabesna & Chitina Districts Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve
Beck KA, Cook MB, Connery B. 1987. An Inventory of Forest Resources: Nabesna & Chitina Districts Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve. Copper Center, AK
As a pilot forest resource assessment project, three forest strata and three timber stands were inventoried along the Nabesna Road in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve during the 1986 field season. Silvicultural parameters such as gross volume, current annual productivity, density, mortality, regeneration and species composition were determined. Relatively high elevation for an interior Alaskan forest and the widespread presence of discontinuous permafrost are major factors contributing to the very low current annual productivity found throughout the area.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Beck, Kathryn; Cook, Mary; Connery, Bruce
- Date of Issue
- 1987-10
- Units
- WRST
- Keywords
- Age class, annual productivity, Batzulnetas, Chitina, Compliance, firewood, Flora, Forest Inventory, forest resources, forest strata, Forestry, green timber, green wood, gross live volume, house logs, houselogs, Inventory, ize class, Lost Creek, Management, management strategies, Mile 20 Road, Nasbena, NEPA, Plant Communities, Plant Survey, Plants, seedling and sapling density, size class, standing dead wood, Subsistence, sustainable harvest, Timber, timber stand exam, timber stand inventory, Trail Creek, tree cores, Vegetation, Vegetation Assessment, Vegetation Classification, Vegetation Management, Vegetation Survey, Wrangell-St. Elias, WRST