Question:
You should leave a buffer of 10 m adjacent to watercourses that are more than 50 cm in width.
Response:
Forest Ecosystem Classification can assist you in making woodland management decisions.
Soils which have a high clay content retain more moisture and may be prone to compaction by heavy equipment.
Pre-treatment assessments are used to assess the vegetation and soils of a site to support management decisions.
Examples of early successional trees are white birch and trembling aspen.
Ecological communities follow a fairly predictable pattern of succession.
Overmature and decaying trees are important contributors to woodland diversity.
Natural disturbances are always large events that impact many hectares of forest at one time.
Uneven-aged stands have at least two age classes of trees.
Advanced regeneration should be assessed prior to any harvesting operation.
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