Three-Year Performance of Planted Loblolly Pine Seedlings on a Lower Piedmont Site After Six Site-Preparation Treatments

摘要

Survival, height, and diameter growth of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) were measured for 3 years after six site-preparation treatments on a lower Piedmont site. Trees in the most intensive treatment, which involved shearing, burning, disking, fertilizing, and herbicide, were 1.5 feet taller when compared with the control and had 8 percent better survival.