Shortleaf Pine In Missouri 2 Methods Of Thinning PDF Download

Excerpt from Shortleaf Pine in Missouri: Stand Density Affects Yield Although thinnings will help maintain good diameter growth rates of individual trees, the current volume growth rates probably cannot be maintained indefinitely. They belong to a period when height growth still is rapid. After height growth begins to level off, volume growth will depend entirely on stem enlargement. It is recommended that 30-year-old shortleaf pine stands be thinned to leave 70 square feet of basal area. The quality of trees left after the second thinning is at least as good in these stands as in any others. As the stands grow older, however, the best stocking density is expected to increase to about 90 square feet basal area per acre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.