Prescribed Winter Burns Can Reduce the Growth of Nine-Year-Old Loblolly Pines

摘要

Prescribed winter burns were done in a precommercially thinned, 9-year-old, natural stands of loblolly and shortleaf pines (Pinus taeda and P. echinata). Growth and survival of 174 loblolly pines were monitored one growing season after this burning.