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Long-term Vegetation Dynamics Following Logging, Windthrow, and Salvage Logging in an Old-growth Landscape in Southwestern New Hampshire.

• HF-ID: HF2016-13
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Sass, E.
• Associated Person: Barker Plotkin, A., D'Amato, A.W., Foster, D.R., Fraver, S., Schoonmaker, P., Orwig, D.A.
• Date: May 2016 to February 17, 2018
• Location: Pisgah State Forest (NH)
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • study proposal, presentation, email correspondence. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: disturbance, hurricane damage, old growth forests, timber harvest
• Abstract:
  • Study proposal by E. Sass, Forest Biology Graduate Program, University of Vermont. Goals of the study are to assess long-term species composition and structural development since the severe disturbance of the 1938 hurricane. Determine the long-term impacts of forest harvesting and salvage logging on forest structure and composition through comparisons of the unlogged Harvard Tract with surrounding sites that were logged prior to or salvage logged following the 1938 hurricane. Characterize the role of microsites and microtopography in affecting the developmental patterns of vegetation structure and composition.
  • Differences in forest structure and composition following historic management decisions and hurricane disturbance on old-growth forest stands in New Hampshire. Printout of March 28, 2017 Harvard Forest Lab Group presentation by Emma Sass and Tony D'Amato

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  • Publication: Long-term influence of disturbance-generated microsites on forest structural and compositional development

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 38, drawer 3, Pisgah file
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