Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas

LS Pile Knapp, DC Dey, MC Stambaugh… - Fire Ecology, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Ecosystem management, community restoration, and managing for climate
resilience have become major priorities of land management in recent decades. For …

Long-term influence of commercial thinning on stand structure and yield with/without pre-commercial thinning of spruce-fir in northern Maine, USA

BH Wagle, AR Weiskittel, AR Kizha, JP Berrill… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Pre-commercial (PCT) and commercial thinning (CT) are important silvicultural tools applied
to spruce-fir (Picea-Abies) forests, a key forest type in the northeastern portion of North …

Timber harvesting on fragile ground and impacts of uncertainties in the operational costs

A K. George, AR Kizha, L Kenefic - International Journal of Forest …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Forested wetlands with high water tables are sensitive to disruption from harvesting yet
support commercially desired tree species like northern white-cedar. Winter harvest was …

Constraints and opportunities in harvesting woody biomass: perspectives of foresters and loggers in the Northeastern United States

LT Louis, A Daigneault, AR Kizha - International Journal of Forest …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Extensive forest resources make the Northeastern United States a promising source of
woody biomass. Managing overstocked stands, common to the region, has been a major …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon footprint of the predominant mechanized timber harvesting methods in the Northeastern US

A Alex, AR Kizha, AK George, S Bick, J Wang… - Cleaner and Circular …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Estimating carbon footprint of forest operations is essential to budget the environmental
impacts of the industry. The study objectives were to a) assess the carbon footprint of whole …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of wound recovery and radial growth 10 years after forest operations in hardwood stands

F Tavankar, S Ezzati, F Latterini, A Lo Monaco… - Forests, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Damage to the residual stand caused by forest operations can have detrimental impacts on
the biological processes of stand growth. This study shows the details from monitoring …

When economically optimal is ecologically complicated: modeling tree-by-tree cutting decisions to maximize financial returns from northern hardwood stands

JD Foppert, NF Maker - Forestry: An International Journal of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
This study challenges a long-standing and often uncontested assertion in the forestry
discourse that maximizing financial returns always requires ecologically simplified stands …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying Blowdown Disturbance in Overstory Retention Patches in Managed Nothofagus pumilio Forests with Variable Retention Harvesting

G Martínez Pastur, J Rodríguez-Souilla, L Bottan… - Forests, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The natural resilience of the forests to face impacts of blowdown damages was affected by
harvesting operations. Variable retention harvesting (VRH) increases forest structure …

Assessing the Residual Stand Damage after Thinning with Different Levels of Mechanization

E Lee, ST Lee, HS Mun, S Chung, JH Oh - Forests, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Thinning is a silvicultural process in which trees are both harvested selectively and
systematically removed from a stand to enhance forest management and ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Production economics and carbon footprint of an integrated timber harvesting operation in the Northeastern US

A Alex, AR Kizha, LT Louis, AK George - Energy Nexus, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Woody biomass has tremendous potential to reduce the reliance on non-renewable energy,
however, the high cost, uncertain harvesting carbon footprint, and policies may hinder it from …