Field trial of a tree injector in a weeding in West Virginia

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• Gibbs, Carter B.

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1963

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Research Note NE-8. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-3

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In June 1960 a 5-acre plot of mixed hardwoods under intensive selection management on the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia was weeded to eliminate poor-quality stems that were competing directly with desirable regeneration. Treatment was confined to stems in the 1- to 5-inch diameter (at breast height) classes.

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Gibbs, Carter B. 1963. Field trial of a tree injector in a weeding in West Virginia. Research Note NE-8. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-3

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Tree diameter a poor indicator of age in West Virginia hardwoods

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• Gibbs, Carter B.

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1963

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Research Note NE-11. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-4

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Foresters generally recognize that diameter growth, height growth, sprouting vigor, and seed production are partially related to age; so age often has an important bearing upon silvicultural decisions. But unless past stand histories are fully known, the ages of hardwood trees can be determined only by increment borings, which not only require excessive time but also expose the trees to stain and decay. As an alternative, many foresters assume that for silvicultural purposes tree diameter at breast height is accurate enough as a guide to tree age. For managed even-aged stands, this assumption may hold true. But for unmanaged mountain hardwoods, a recent investigation on the Fernow Experimental Forest, Parsons, West Virginia, has revealed extreme variability in the tree age-d.b.h. relationship.

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Gibbs, Carter B. 1963. Tree diameter a poor indicator of age in West Virginia hardwoods. Research Note NE-11. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-4

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Quality and Quantity Evaluations of Shade Grown Forages

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• Ladyman, K. P.
• Kerley, M. S.
• Kallenbach, R. L.
• Garrett, H. E.
• Van Sambeek, J. W.
• Navarrete-Tindall, N. E.

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2003

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In: 8^th North American Agroforestry Conference: Agroforestry and Riparian Buffers for Land Productivity and Environmental Stability; Corvallis, OR. [City, State: Publisher Unknown: 175-181

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Seven legumes were grown during the summer-fall of 2000, at the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center (39? 01 ' N, 92? 46' W) near New Franklin, MO. The forages were grown in 7.5L white pots placed on light-colored gravel either under full sunlight, 45% sunlight, or 20% sunlight created by a shade cloth over a rectangular frame. Drip irrigation was applied once a day. Forages were grown in a well-drained potting medium with a complete slow-release fertilizer. Forages were sown and germinated in the greenhouse between May 18 and June 14 and put outside into the shade study on June 21 to June 30. Forages were harvested in August and October. All forages were analyzed for their content of N (nitrogen), NDF (neutral detergent fiber), ADF (acid detergent fiber), and NDFIS (neutral detergent fiber in situ digestibility). Three of the legume species had greater (P>O.05) forage production at 45% than in full sunlight. As the percentage sunlight was decreased, most forage species studied had greater (P>0.05) concentrations of nitrogen and fiber. Fiber digestibility was higher (P>0.05) or unchanged (P>0.05) for most forage species as sunlight intensity was decreased. Several legume species have the potential to be used in a silvopastoral practice to improve forage productivity and quality as compared to an open pasture environment.

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• fiber digestibility
• light
• forage quality

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Ladyman, K. P.; Kerley, M. S.; Kallenbach, R. L.; Garrett, H. E.; Van Sambeek, J. W.; Navarrete-Tindall, N. E. 2003. Quality and Quantity Evaluations of Shade Grown Forages. In: 8^th North American Agroforestry Conference: Agroforestry and Riparian Buffers for Land Productivity and Environmental Stability; Corvallis, OR. [City, State: Publisher Unknown: 175-181

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An appraisal of early reproduction after cutting in northern Appalachian hardwood stands

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• Trimble, George R., Jr. Jr.
• Hart, George

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1961

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Station Paper NE-162. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 22 p.

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How shall I cut to get reproduction? What kind of reproduction will I get if I cut the way I am planning to? All foresters have asked themselves these questions. To help supply some answers to these questions for the northern Appalachian hardwood area, the authors have summarized and analyzed before- and after-cutting reproduction data collected over a period of 10 years on the Fernow Experimental Forest near Parsons, West Virginia.

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Trimble, George R., Jr.; Hart, George 1961. An appraisal of early reproduction after cutting in northern Appalachian hardwood stands. Station Paper NE-162. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 22 p.

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Ten-year earnings from two small woodlands

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• Mitchell, Wilfred C.
• Webster, Henry H.

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1961

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Station Paper NE-145. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 31 p.

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Ten years ago, management was started on two 30-acre demonstration woodlots on the Fernow Experimental Forest near Parsons, West Virginia. These were designated as Farm Woodlots, on the assumption that there was something significantly different between management incentives and opportunities for small holdings owned by farmers and for those owned by non-farmers.

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Mitchell, Wilfred C.; Webster, Henry H. 1961. Ten-year earnings from two small woodlands. Station Paper NE-145. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 31 p.

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Managing mountain hardwoods - a ten-year appraisal

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• Trimble, George R., Jr. Jr.

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1961

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Station Paper NE-143. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 25 p.

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Ten years ago - in 1949 - four 5-acre plots were established on the Fernow Experimental Forest near Parsons, West Virginia, to show the effects upon mountain hardwoods of each of four management treatments.

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Trimble, George R., Jr. 1961. Managing mountain hardwoods - a ten-year appraisal. Station Paper NE-143. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 25 p.

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A simple filter dam for small streams

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• Reinhart, K. G.

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1960

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Forest Research Note NE-107. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-4

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Research foresters on the Fernow Experimental Forest were recently faced with the problem of conducting a logging job with "poor" skidroad standards on a 38-acre watershed above a municipal water-supply reservoir.

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Reinhart, K. G. 1960. A simple filter dam for small streams. Forest Research Note NE-107. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-4

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Chaff seeding does not inhibit tree reproduction

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• Trimble, George R., Jr. Jr.

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1957

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Forest Research Note NE-77. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 2p.

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Seeding of grass and other herbaceous cover is a recognized method of reducing soil washing on old logging roads, trails, decks, and other disturbed areas. It is done to protect the quality of water supplies and, in the case of roads that are to be used again, to preserve them for use during the next logging operation. The successful use of chaff (from local harvest operations) to do this on the Fernow Experimental Forest near Parsons, W. Va. has been reported.

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Trimble, George R., Jr. 1957. Chaff seeding does not inhibit tree reproduction. Forest Research Note NE-77. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 2p.

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Cutting mountain hardwood stands

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• Marquis, Ralph W.
• Weitzman, Sidney
• Holcomb, Carl J.

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1954

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Station Paper NE-73. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 19 p.

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On the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia, as on several other experimental forests in the Northeast, studies are being conducted to compare the biologic and economic results of different methods of forest management. The experiments are being carried out on compartments varying in size from 50 t o 150 acres. Such areas are large enough to permit the simulation of commercial logging operations. The treatments applied to these compartments are designed to encompass different silvicultural systems, different product objectives, and different intensities of forest management. Essentially they are long-term studies.

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Marquis, Ralph W.; Weitzman, Sidney; Holcomb, Carl J. 1954. Cutting mountain hardwood stands. Station Paper NE-73. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 19 p.

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Five years of research on the Fernow Experimental Forest

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Weitzman, Sidney

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1953

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Station Paper NE-61. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-44

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In 1948 the U. S. Forest Service's Northeastern Forest Experiment Station set up a research center in West Virginia to study forestry problems in the Appalachian Mountain region. It was named the Mountain State Research Center.

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Weitzman, Sidney 1953. Five years of research on the Fernow Experimental Forest. Station Paper NE-61. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-44

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