FOR 350 - Silviculture Dr. John M. Lhotka University of Kentucky - Department of Forestry Silviculture is the art and science of controlling the establishment, composition, structure, and growth of a forest stand to meet the landowners’ objectives on a sustainable basis.

Course Syllabus

Lecture Materials

• Lectures: Week 1
• Lectures: Week 2
• Lectures: Week 3
• Lectures: Week 4
• Week 4 Supplement - Using Stocking Chart
• Lectures: Week 5
• Lectures: Week 7
• Lectures: Week 8
• Lectures: Week 9
• Week 9: Ecological Basis for Oak Regeneration Approaches
• Week 9 Supplement: Regeneration Model Simulations
• Week 10: Site Preparation
• Week 11: Artificial Regeneration
• Bottomland Hardwood Ecology and Silviculture
• Invasive Plants Ecology and Management
• Woody Biomass Harvesting Costs and Benefits
• Plantation Forestry: A Global Look
• Southern Pine Plantation Management

Lab Materials

Lab 1 - Describing Stand Structure

Uneven-aged Regulation Lab Examples

Definitions and Terminology

• Silviculture terminology with appendix of draft ecosystem management terms
• Stand description – concepts and definitions

Supplemental Readings

• Book Chapters
• The Practice of Silviculture, Smith 1986
•  The Response of Individual Trees to Thinning and Pruning (ch.2)
• Ecology of Regeneration (ch.7)

• Oak Forest Ecosystems, McShea 2003
•  The Ecological Basis for Oak Silviculture in Eastern North America (ch.5)

• Timber Management: A Quantitative Approach, Clutter et al. 1983
• Growing Stock and Stand Density (ch.3)
  

• Silviculture in the Central Hardwood Region

• Yield, Stand, and Volume Tables for Even-aged Upland Oak Forests, Schnur 1937
• Table 2. Composite yield of second-growth upland oak

• Even-aged Silviculture for Upland Central Hardwoods (Roach and Gingrich)

• Manager’s Handbook for Oaks in the North Central States (Sander)

• Technical Guide to Crop Tree Release in Hardwood Forests (Miller et al.)

• Upland Oak Regeneration and Management (Loftis)

• Central Hardwood Notes, USDA Forest Service (website)

• Professional Hardwood Notes

• Managing Oak Decline (Clatterbuck & Kaufmann)
•  Oak Shelterwood: A Technique to Improve Oak Regeneration (Stringer)
•  Hardwood Plantations as an Investment (Tankersley)
• Forest Management Strategy to Minimize the Impact of the Gypsy Moth (Clatterbuck & Kaufmann)
• Two-aged System and Deferment Harvest (Stringer)
• Treatments for Improving Degraded Harwood Stands (Clatterbuck)
• Technical Guide to Crop Tree Release in Hardwood Forests (Stringer et al.)

Figures from Silviculture Texts (link)

Bibliography for selected figures and tables

• Clutter, J.L., J.C. Fortson, L.V. Pienaar, G.H. Brister, and R.L. Bailey. 1983. Timber management: A quantitative approach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 333 p.
• Davis, L.S., K.N. Johnson, P. Bettinger, and T.E. Howard. 2001. Forest Management. Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL. 804 p.
• Hicks, R.R., Jr. 1998. Ecology and management of Central Hardwood forests. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 412 p.
• Johnson, P.S., S.R. Shifley, and R. Rogers. 2002. The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks.
• McShea, W.J., and W.M. Healy (eds.). 2003. Oak Forest Ecosystems: Ecology and Management for Wildlife. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 456 p.
• Nyland, R.D. 2002. Silviculture: Concepts and applications. McGraw Hill, Boston, MA. 682 p.
• Schnur, G.L. 1937. Yield, stand, and volume tables for even-aged upland oak forests. US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 560. 87 p.
• Smith, D.M. 1986. The Practice of Silviculture. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 527 p.
• Smith, D.M., B.C. Larson, M.J. Kelty, and M.S. Ashton. 1997. The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 537 p.
• Tappeiner, J.C., D.A. Maguire, and T.B. Harrington. 2007. Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR. 440 p.

Forest Measurements

• Variable point sampling
• Common basal area factors (BAF)
• Site index curves for the Central Hardwood Region
• Stocking chart for upland hardwoods (Gingrich 1967) (pdf) (website)
• Stand Density Index (SDI)
• More forest measurements resources available on FOR 480 couse website

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