Keyword: engineering

• Silviculture Treatments for Ecosystem Management in the Sayward (STEMS): Establishment Report for STEMS 1, Snowden Demonstration Forest
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1336.htm
  Douglas-fir Young-Growth Production Forests" in the Capitol Forest near Olympia, Washington, developed jointly by the managers of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the scientists of the Pacific Northwest Research Station. The decision to replicate the treatments in the Sayward Forest was based on the similarity of knowledge gaps in the Sayward Forest and the Capitol Forest and because replication in Washington and British Columbia results in greater statistical power and ability to extrapolate over a wide geographic area. This technical report describes the establishment of the first replication of STEMS in 2001 in the Snowden Demonstration Forest. Ongoing studies include: Tree growth and stand development, including understory vegetation Regeneration and light availability Windthrow, mortality, and coarse woody debris recruitment Harvesting production and impacts of residual tree damage and soil disturbance (in partnership with the Forest Engineering and Re ...