A Stocking Guide for Allegheny Hardwoods and Its Use in Controlling Intermediate Cuttings

摘要

A stocking guide for stands of Allegheny hardwoods (sugar maple or sugar maple-beech with various admixtures of black cherry, red maple, white ash, sweet birch, and other species) on the Allegheny Plateau in northwestern Pennsylvania. Included are procedures for evaluating stocking and stand conditions, thinning even-aged stands, determining minimum residual stocking, distributing the basal-area cut in a stand, and using the guide for selection cutting.