Fosthall Creek Road trial

Last updated on August 22, 2023

Trial name: Partial cutting in the Columbia Forest Zone. (EP370b) (aka Fosthall Creek Road trial)
Trial objectives	Installation name	Ecosystems represented	Tree species	Silvicultural systems tested	Post establishment treatments
Growth and Yield Forest Health	Fosthall Creek Road Trial	ICHmw2	Western red cedar Western hemlock Western larch Douglas-fir Lodgepole pine Western white pine Hybrid spruce Subalpine fir	Improvement cut (thinning) Diameter Limit Cut Salvage Cut No harvest control Five replicates of each treatment	None
Comments: Summer 1989 - one plot destroyed by logging.

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Publication topics	Publications
Harvesting costs	Stewart, M. 1956. Cost study of partial cutting treatments in interior wet belt of British Columbia. B.C. For. Serv. Res. Note 32.
Growth and Yield	Thompson, C. 1977. Partial cutting in a mixed wet-belt type. B.C. For. Serv. Res. Note 78. Johnstone, W.D. 2002. Growth and development following partial cutting of a complex stand in the Interior Cedar-Hemlock zone of British Columbia: 40 year results (PDF, 1.2MB). B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C. Res. Rep. 22.

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