Silviculture: Concepts and Applications reflects a belief that all the tools of silviculture have a useful role in modern forestry. Through careful analysis and creative planning, foresters can address a wide array of commodity and nonmarket interests and opportunities while maintaining dynamic and resilient forests. A landowner’s needs, circumstances, and site conditions guide a silviculturist’s judgment and decision making in finding the best ways to integrate the biologic-ecologic, economic-financial, and managerial-administrative requirements at hand. The Third Edition of this influential text provides a foundational basis for rigorous discussion of techniques. The inclusion of numerous real-world examples and balanced coverage of past and current practices broadens the concept of silviculture and the ways that managers can use it to address both traditional and emerging interests in forests. A thorough discussion of new and proven interpretations increasingly directs the attention of foresters toward the role silviculture plays in creating, maintaining, rehabilitating, and restoring forests that can sustain an expanding variety of ecosystem services. 1. Silviculture as an Orderly Discipline: Silviculture and Its Place in Forestry / The Changing Context of Forestry / Planning at the Ecosystem Level / Silviculture Defined—An Art and a Science / What Silviculturists Do. 2. The Silvicultural System, Disturbance and Functionality / The Silvicultural System as a Plan for Management / Comparison of Even- and Uneven-Aged Systems / Adjusting the Intensity of Management / The Art of Silviculture.
3. Harvesting as a Tool of Silviculture, Timber Harvesting and Silviculture / Timber Harvesting Systems / Silvicultural Requirements of Logging / Practices to Prevent Environmental Pollution / Planning for Routine Harvesting.
4. Concepts of Regeneration, Objectives of Forest Regeneration Practices / Ingredients for Success / High-Forest Regeration / Integrating Silvicultural Practice and Forest Tree Improvement / Use of Exotic Species. 5. Planning for Artificial Regeneration. Tree Planting in Silviculture / Planning a Tree Planting Project / Field Assessment of Site Conditions / Kinds of Planting Stock / Organizing a Plantation / Getting Ready for the Planting. 6. Site Preparation
Role and Scope of Site Preparation / Passive Site Preparation / Active Site Preparation / Mechanical Site Preparation / Using Herbicides in Site Preparation / Fire and Its Effects in Forests / Weighing the Alternatives. 7. Nursery and Tree Planting Operations, Seed Selection and Handling / Seedling Production / Container Stock / Successful Outplanting of Bare-Root Stock / Some Special Considerations in Planting. 8. Regeneration from Seed and Direct Seeding
Underlying Premise / Direct Seeding for Forest Regeneration / Examples of Direct Seeding. 9. Regeneration Methods and Their Implications, Important Ecologic and Economic Factors / Regeneration Methods and Their Role in Silviculture / Some Regulatory Considerations in Silviculture / Even-Aged Stand Development / Some Patterns of Uneven-Aged Stand Development / Relationship to a Regeneration Strategy. 10. Selection System and Its Application, The Character of Selection System / Characterizing Conditions in Selection System Stands / Defining a Residual Structure / Balanced Structures and Other Guides for Selection System / Enhancing Quality and Value.
