Broadcast burning slash favors black spruce reproduction on organic soil in Minnesota
- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Institute of Forestry in The Forestry Chronicle
- Vol. 47 (1) , 33-35
- https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc47033-1
Abstract
Slash burning tests showed that summer broadcast burning is superior to both winter progressive burning and no disposal for reproducing black spruce on clearcut areas in north-central Minnesota. Broadcast burning is superior because: 1 it exposes moist sphagnum moss and consumes dry mosses, and thus produces favorable seedbeds over the entire clearcut area; 2 it kills all residual conifers and eradicates dwarf mistletoe; and 3 assuming slash disposal is prescribed, it is much cheaper than progressive burning.Keywords
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