Deer Forage in a Loblolly Pine Plantation

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Browse yields in a 30-year-old plantation thinned at ages 20 and 25 years were directly related to the amount of pine removed and varied from 154 1b (oven-dry) per acre under light thinning to 199 1b/acre under heavy thinning. At plantation age 35, 5 growing seasons after a 3rd thinning, browse yields, were inversely related to pine-thinning intensity, ranging from 255 lb/acre in lightly thinned stands to 195 lb/acre in those heavily thinned. Many of the young hardwoods and shrubs had grown beyond the reach of deer and formed a multilayered midstory that inhibited plant growth beneath. Midstory density increased with intensity of pine thinning.

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