Summary:
General Technical Report NRS-98. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 75 p.
Northern white-cedar (eastern white cedar; Thuja occidentalis L.) is an important tree species in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, occurring both in pure stands and as a minor species in mixed stands of hardwoods or other softwoods. Yet practitioners have little and often contradictory information about cedar ecology and silviculture. In response to this information need, a group of university and government researchers in the United States and Canada embarked on more than a decade of collaborative research; this guide is a compilation of the knowledge generated by that effort. (...)
Sector(s):
Forests
Catégorie(s):
Guide, Report
Theme(s):
Forestry Research, Forests, Silviculture
Departmental author(s):
Author(s):
Emmanuelle BOULFROY, Éric FORGET, Philip V. HOFMEYER, Laura S. KENEFIC, Catherine LAROUCHE, Guy LESSARD, Jean-Martin LUSSIER, Fred PINTO, Jean-Claude RUEL and Aaron WEISKITTEL
Year of publication:
2012
Format:
Paper
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Keyword(s):
Thuja occidentalis, sylviculture et rendement des forêts naturelles - peuplements mélangés, sylviculture et rendement des forêts naturelles - peuplements résineux, silviculture and yield of natural forests - mixed stands, silviculture and yield of natural forests - softwood stands, silvicuture guide, management, autecology, mixedwood stand, northern white-cedar, eastern white cedar
This publication exists in another language: Guide pour la sylviculture du thuya occidental