Crop Tree Management for Forest Stand Improvement
Webinar Details
When:
Oct 26, 2011 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 00:52 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Reviewed for Continued Content Relevance: 07/2016
Presenter(s):
- Tom Ward, Forester, USDA NRCS East National Technology Support Center, Greensboro, NC
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
Virtual Event Format:
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Gain insight into how meeting the sunlight needs of individual crop trees can facilitate Forest Stand Improvement efforts efficiently and effectively, while meeting a variety of possible forest landowner goals and objectives.
Crop Tree Management is a simple technique for applying Forest Stand Improvement, sometimes called Timber Stand Improvement. Landowner objectives are used to determine which species and quality criteria will be used to select “crop trees.” Crop tree selection criteria can favor trees for wildlife habitat, forest health, water quality, and visual quality, as well as timber value. When a crop tree is located, any surrounding trees that compete with the crop tree for light are marked to be cut or killed. Light is the most limiting resource for forest trees and this technique assures that crop trees get full sun, become dominant trees in the stand, grow rapidly, and produce abundant seed crops. Crop tree management is a qualitative, visual, and intuitive technique that can be grasped by non-foresters, requires minimal data gathering, and produces excellent results. At completion of this training, students should be able to: describe what a crop tree is, give examples of crop tree selection criteria, and describe how crop tree management is applied and how a crop tree inventory can be conducted.
This webinar is sponsored by the USDA NRCS East National Technology Support Center.
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