Managing Oak Woodlands

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Describes the value of oak woodlands for wood, water, wildlife, and recreation. Also describes how to regenerate and manage hardwood stands to sustain an abundance of oaks. Use with folder FO-5938, "Woodland Owners' Guide to Oak Management." For adults; particularly woodland owners and loggers in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

<<< prev      Contents      next >>> <<< prev      Contents      next >>> Contents 2. Oak stand, sawtimber size 42. Forester and landowner inspecting oak seedling 3. Landowner and forester in oak stand 43. Word slide: Potential problems with shelterwood 4. Composite: veneer quality oak and oak paneling 44. Acorns on tree 5. Composite: sawlog quality oak and lumber 45. Person standing in dense understory 6. Composite: pole-sized oak and shiitake mushroom 46. Recent clearcut in dormant season 7. Composite: poor quality oak and firewood 47. Word slide: Risk in clearcutting 8. Wild turkeys 48. Planting oak seedling 9. Cropland above and below a wooded hillside 49. Composite: chainsaw felling, girdling, bulldozing, herbicide application 10. Aerial view of woodland, cropland, pasture 50. Good and poor seedlings 11. Leaves of red oak, black oak, pin oak 51. Bundle of oak seedlings 12. Leaves of bur oak, white oak 52. Unclipped and clipped seedlings 13. Landscape with woodland on different sites 53. Hand planting oak seedling 14. Aerial view of woodland w/ different sites 54. Seedling marked w/ stake 15. Cluster of healthy acorns 55. Small pole-sized oak crop trees marked by ribbons 16. Cluster of weevil damaged acorns 56. Poor quality tree 17. Large crown of oak 57. Forester measuring oak with biltmore stick 18. Squirrel 58. Word slide: regeneration options 19. Acorn beneath soil surface and leaf litter 59. Person looking at broken tree 20. Stump sprouts originating low on stump 60. Fire in woodland 21. Stump sprout high on stump showing decay in stump 61. Heartwood decay 22. Composite: small diameter stump with sprouts and large stump without sprouts 62. Oaks killed by oak wilt 23. Word slide: tree species by shade tolerance categories 63. Composite: borer damage in lumber and defoliated oak 24. Graphic: group selection, clearcut, shelterwood 64. Well-stocked oak stand 25. Graphic: single-tree selection 65. Livestock in oak woodland 26. Mature oak stand 66. Person looking at two stands of different ages 27. Poor quality tree 67. Graphic: Canopy layers 28. Forester counting oak seedlings 68. Acorns 29. Word slide: number of seedlings needed by seedling height categories 69. Den tree 30. Dry site oak stand w/ oak seedling in foreground 70. Snags in clearcut 31. Mature oak stand with dense understory 71. Clearcut along a road 32. Clearcut 72. Graphic: straight, irregular and feathered edges 33. Dense canopy formed by large tree 73. Graphic: clearcuts blending with and crossing the landscape 34. Person looking at dense understory of sugar maple 74. Graphic: irregular shaped and rectangular clearcuts 35. Composite: ferns and nettles 75. Clover and grass on logging road 36. Composite: chain saw felling, girdling, basal spraying, and foliage spraying 76. Forester and landowner inspecting woodland 37. Mist blowing ferns 77. Aerial view of woodland, cropland, pasture 38. Canopy w/ 60-80% crown cover 78. Word slide: authors, photographer, narrator, artist 39. Person looking at good quality oak stem 79. Word slide: contributors 40. Poor quality oak stem 80. Word slide: produced by 41. Composite: chain saw felling and spraying herbicide on girdle

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