Silvicultural Methods for Improving Hardwood Management on Non-Industrial Private Forest land in Virginia

Hardwood management has been discouraged because of long rotations, low stumpage values, expensive treatments, and an undependable market (Bechtold and Phillips 1983). Knowledge gaps on how various biological factors affect hardwood growth also exist. Stand improvement methods attempt to shift gro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matthews, Bonnie L. C.
Other Authors: Forestry
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33708
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06232005-182633/