Managing ingrown Douglas-fir stands for biodiversity, forage and timber: the Farwell Canyon project (EP 1367)

Last updated on August 22, 2023

Trial name: Managing ingrown Douglas-fir stands for biodiversity, forage and timber: the Farwell Canyon project
Trial objectives	Installation name	Ecosystems represented	Tree species	Silvicultural systems tested	Post establishment treatments
Using a modified single tree selection silvicultural system to enhance: vegetation species richness and diversity individual tree growth stand productivity forage for domestic animals to increase resistance to Douglas-fir bark beetle and stand destroying fire	Farwell Canyon	IDFxm	Douglas-fir aspen	Single tree selection with four treatments: harvest (min. dbh 12.5cm) harvest plus juvenile spacing harvest-spacing- under burning no-harvest controls	Under burning by wildfire of one block in 2017
Comments: 1 of the 2 blocks in the trial was impacted by fire in 2017 (mostly under burned due to the treatments)

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Publication topics	Publications
General Overview	Steen, O.A. and H.M. Armleder. 2008. Managing ingrown Douglas-fir stands for biodiversity, forage and timber: the Farwell Canyon project fifth year results. B.C. Min. For. Range, Res. Br., Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 047. M.J. Waterhouse and N. M. Daintith. 2016. Stand dynamics after partial cutting in dry Douglas-fir forests in central British Columbia: Farwell Canyon research project. Prov. B.C., Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 100.

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Managing ingrown Douglas-fir stands for biodiversity, forage and timber: the Farwell Canyon project (EP 1367)

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