Factors Affecting Income From Second-Growth Forests in the Western Sierra Nevada (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Josephson, Horace Richard

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ISBN 10: 0365047775 ISBN 13: 9780365047773

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Factors Affecting Income From Second-Growth Forests in the Western Sierra Nevada

Second-growth pine forests along the Western slope of the Sierra Ne vada in California, dating back to logging operations during the boom days of the early gold rush, are destined to play an important part in the future economy of California. These young-growth stands, contain ing varying proportions of ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Douglas-fir, California incense-cedar, and white fir, cover an area of about acres distributed along the Sierra Nevada as illustrated in figure 1. Located for the most part outside national forest boundaries, second growth pine forests constitute the dominant cover type throughout the western Sierra Nevada foothills.

In the more rolling foothill region between elevations of about to feet, where logging operations were centered during the early gold-mining period of the 1850's and 1860's, many of the second-growth stands are of fairly even age. Throughout most of the region, however, particularly in the more rugged forest areas at higher elevations, the young-growth stands contain both young trees and residual old-growth timber left during the early logging. These widely distributed stands are of uneven age and mixed-species composition.

These young pine forests have considerable potential importance as the basic resource for future lumbering industries. However, the income producing power of most young-growth stands is restricted by various production and marketing problems. A low density of stocking, for example, and a patchy distribution of forest cover reflect the prevalent limited utilization of the timber-growing capacity of forest lands. Re current forest and brush fires continue to accentuate understocking and to enlarge the deforested areas.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0365047775
• ISBN 13: 9780365047773
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 78
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