Planting Oaks:A Recipe for Success

摘要

Growing oak trees to maturity begins with two ingredients: viable acorns and competitive seedlings. USDA Forest Service scientist Stacy Clark wrote a cookbook to help managers with the regeneration process in healthy, productive oak forests.To regenerate an oak forest, healthy, large oak seedlings and saplings must be present in the understory before overstory trees are removed. This regeneration layer is often lacking, especially in the Southern Appalachians.