… interest in improving forest health by restoring the stand structure and disturbance regime
that was present before Euro-American settlement in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. We …

… effects of both thinning intensity and type. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate
the effects of intensity and type of thinning on post-thinning stem growth of Scots pine trees…

… The study site was part of a 2250 ha pine forest planted between 1981 and 1986 following
the 1977 Pondosa Fire. Precipitation, mostly as snow, averaged 760 mm annually. Soils are …

… In this study, we report on the effects of mechanical thinning and standard post-thinning …
time in a ponderosa pine forest in Eastern Oregon. Thinning without prescribed fire significantly …

… fires that historically occurred in ponderosa pine forests to intense, severe, stand-replacing
fires more typical of lodgepole pine or moist, long fire cycle forests. Although stand treatments …

… Overall, the effect of forest thinning on soil … to thinning and inter-annual climate variability
(Tang et al. 2005). The extent of this effect is likely to depend on the intensity of the thinning …

… treatments, especially forest pruning, for hazard reduction is required. Here we evaluate
pruning and thinning as two essential silvicultural treatments for timber pine forests. Data came …

… greater positive effects of restoration thinning on tree … thinning studies in southwestern
ponderosa pine forests either focused on postsettlement trees in stands that were evenly thinned …

… that our understanding of the effect of fuel thinning effects on fire … for semi arid ponderosa
pine forests of the American southwest. … thinned and unthinned forests and fuel moisture effects …

… The aim of the present study was to analyze in detail the effects of three thinning treatments
on the structure, growth and risk of crown fire of Scots pine plantations. The specific …