Dendrology video 1 ; Fire timing

Hardwood management for wildlife

great interest in hunting/game = more management for WT deer + turkey.

Managing for deer and turkey can also bring benefits to which species, and how?

• Red Cockaded Woodpecker + Summer Tanager

• improve understood vegetation used as habitat ; found freq. in burn areas

• retain mast production 

two different approaches to hardwood management 

• Canopy reduction

thinning, shelterwood cut, forest stand improvement 

• Prescribed fire 

dormant season (usually)

mesophyte competition problems; fire as a usefool tool how

• decreases competition

• impacts various aspects of oak ecology

• seasonal effects still not understood

Early Growing Season

• apr - may

• similar effects to dormant

• often burned during leaf out

Late growing season 

• Sept - Oct 

• better comp control? 

• decreased intensity 

• concerns over acorn germination

Treatments - Shelterwood harvest 2010

reduced BA by ~50%(110-55sq ft.) ; 30% understory sunlight

treatments : 6 per unit

EGS - apr/may + LGS sept-oct

2.5 yr RI, low intensity ; last burn 10/22 + 4/23