shelterwood

Forestry: Natural Regeneration
A method of regenerating an even-aged stand in which a new age class develops beneath the moderated micro-environment provided by the residual trees. The sequence of treatments can include three distinct types of cuttings: 1) an optional preparatory cut to enhance conditions for seed production; 2) an establishment cut to prepare the seed bed and to create a new age class; and 3) a removal cut to release established regeneration from competition with the overwood. Cutting may be done uniformly throughout the stand (Uniform Shelterwood), in groups or patches (Group Shelterwood), or in strips (Strip Shelterwood).

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Image Descriptor Description Photographer
1420055 Competition Cross section of seedbed (grass rough), USDA Forest Service - Escambia Experimental Forest, Brewton, Alabama, March 1964 William D. Boyer
1420056 Competition Pine litter under stand of 40 square foot basal area plot, B-4, Compartment 82, USDA Forest Service - Escambia Experimental Forest, Brewton, Alabama, March 1946 William D. Boyer
1162025 Cones Ripe cones just before seed disperal in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1162028 Cones Ripe cones just before seed disperal in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1118155 Cutting Systems Modified shelterwood Brian Lockhart
1118157 Cutting Systems Ozark oaks shelterwood Ozark Nat. Forest Brian Lockhart
1118158 Cutting Systems shelterwood (oaks) in Ozark N.F. on excellent site (Si 80) Brian Lockhart
1118159 Cutting Systems Oak shelterwood, some oak regen. Ozark Nat. Forest Brian Lockhart
1118160 Cutting Systems Dense green ash & water hickory following seed-tree removal Brian Lockhart
1118162 Cutting Systems water and willow oak Brian Lockhart
1118163 Cutting Systems Fenced shelterwood in France. Europe oaks & northern red oak Brian Lockhart
1118164 Cutting Systems Brian Lockhart
1118165 Cutting Systems one-yr-old sycamore, sugarberry, and pecan shelterwood Brian Lockhart
1118166 Cutting Systems Shelterwoodwith planted nuttall oak & natural oak regeneration Brian Lockhart
1118167 Cutting Systems Oak shelterwood. Reduce ba ~ 25 % Brian Lockhart
1118189 Cutting Systems Deferment cut Brian Lockhart
1118190 Cutting Systems Deferment cut, new epicormic branches on deferment tree Brian Lockhart
1118191 Cutting Systems Deferment cut, large cottonwood in sugarberry, elm, cottonwood, sycamore two-aged stand Brian Lockhart
1118209 Cutting Systems In mature stand. Brian Lockhart
1118145 Cutting Systems Noxubee Wildlife Refuge Brian Lockhart
1118146 Cutting Systems Brian Lockhart
1118147 Cutting Systems 3 yr old Nuttall and willow oak. Nuttal oak with epicormics Brian Lockhart
1118148 Cutting Systems 3 year old shelterwood. Nuttal and willow oak Brian Lockhart
1118149 Cutting Systems "Good stand" loessial hill, heavy cut following established of new cherrybark oak seedlings Brian Lockhart
1118150 Cutting Systems 2-aged deferment Brian Lockhart
1118151 Cutting Systems Shelterwood in northern red and pin oak uplands Brian Lockhart
1118152 Cutting Systems Sessile, pendulate, & Northern red oak heavy shelterwood forest in France uplands Brian Lockhart
1118153 Cutting Systems Willow, water, and Nuttall oak Brian Lockhart
1174019 Cutting Systems Chris Schnepf
1359033 Cutting Systems Three-step shelterwood cutting method in Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir (Picea engel-mannii-Abies lasiocarpa) forest showing preparatory cut; Fraser Experimental Forest, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, north-central Colorado Dave Powell
1359034 Cutting Systems Clearcut cutting method in Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir (Picea engelmannii-Abies lasiocarpa) forest showing regeneration established since early 1980s; Fraser Experimen-tal Forest, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, north-central Colorado Dave Powell
2714006 Cutting Systems Dispersed and aggregated retention in Ponderosa Pine, Douglas-fir and Grand fir near Sisters Doug Maguire
2714011 Cutting Systems shelterwood cut in Douglas-fir stand near Wilmer Doug Maguire
2714035 Cutting Systems Green tree retention demonstration treatment 15% dispersed retention in Douglas-fir; Dog Prairie Doug Maguire
2714036 Cutting Systems Green tree retention demonstration treatment 40% aggregated retention. Dog Prairie. Doug Maguire
2714037 Cutting Systems Green tree retention demonstration treatment 15% aggregated retention. Dog Prairie. Doug Maguire
2714044 Cutting Systems Green tree retention demonstration treatments 40% aggregated retention on left,75% retention with patch cuts on right. Dog Prairie Doug Maguire
5034058 Cutting Systems Joseph O'Brien
5034059 Cutting Systems Joseph O'Brien
5034060 Cutting Systems Joseph O'Brien
4799088 Cutting Systems Shelterwood cut leaving 12 per acre for natural regeneration of Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana), California white fir (Abies concolor), and Incense-cedar (Libocedrus decurrens)in the Challeuge Experimental Forest in the northern Sierra Nevada's. Slash was piled and burned. Philip McDonald
4800030 Cutting Systems Uniform shelterwood retaining approximately 40 sq. ft./ac. Residual hardwoods have been chain-saw felled 4 months previous and broadcast burned 1 month previously. Ouachita National Forest; LeFlore county, Oklahoma Robert F. Wittwer
1420016 Cutting Systems immediately after seed tree removal cut, Compartment 93, USDA Forest Service - Escambia Experimental Forest, Brewton, Alabama, February 1954 Thomas C. Croker
0908006 Damage logging debris piled at base of seed tree David J. Moorhead
0908039 Harvesting Large (6 feet tall) regeneration damaged during harvest (skidding) of seed trees in final shelterwood removal. Smaller regeneration is less susceptable to breakage and damage. David J. Moorhead
0908069 Harvesting removal of seed trees in final harvest cut David J. Moorhead
1403019 Harvesting Skidding during the seed tree cut in 55-year old natural stand. Tift County Georgia David J. Moorhead
0908026 Prescribed Fire seedbed burn in September prior to seed dispersal David J. Moorhead
1162024 Prescribed Fire Burn following a light chopping operation just prior to seedfall in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1162026 Prescribed Fire Burn following a light chopping operation just prior to seedfall in late September. Note, some advanced regeneration is present. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1162027 Prescribed Fire Burn following a light chopping operation just prior to seedfall in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1162046 Prescribed Fire Burn following a light chopping operation just prior to seedfall in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1162047 Prescribed Fire Burn following a light chopping operation just prior to seedfall in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
1162048 Prescribed Fire Burn following a light chopping operation just prior to seedfall in late September. Tifton, Georgia David J. Moorhead
2714072 Prescribed Fire The series of 6 slides illustrates a shelterwood-burn technique that successfully regenerates oaks and the other species on good sites in the Piedmont. High intensity prescribed fires (flame lengths 3-4 ft.) in the spring 3-5 years following an initial shelterwood cut that leaves 40-50 square feet basal area in mature mixed hardwood stands will produce oak-dominated stands. Low intensity winter fires following shelterwood cutting will regenerate predominantly yellow-poplar stands. See images 2714072-2714077 Patrick H. Brose
2714073 Prescribed Fire A mature mixed hardwood stand with an understory dominated by shade-tolerant species. Oak seedlings present, but noncompetitive. Piedmont of Virginia. See images 2714072-2714077 Patrick H. Brose
2714074 Prescribed Fire Mature mixed hardwood stand following initial shelterwood cut that leaves 40-50 square feet of basal area. Piedmont of Virginia. See images 2714072-2714077 Patrick H. Brose
2714075 Prescribed Fire Yellow-poplar regeneration that dominates prior to burning. Piedmont of Virginia. See images 2714072-2714077 Patrick H. Brose
2714076 Prescribed Fire Spring burn (just after leaf out) conducted 3-5 years after the initial shelterwood cut. Piedmont of Virginia. See images 2714072-2714077 Patrick H. Brose
2714077 Prescribed Fire Results of spring burn, most of the dead regeneration is yellow poplar. Most of the new sprouts are oak. Piedmont of Virginia. See images 2714072-2714077 Patrick H. Brose
1423029 Prescribed Fire After "hot" fall burn, Kisatchie National Forest, Louisana, April 1988 William D. Boyer
1423050 Prescribed Fire Stand after winter burn, Escambia Experimental Forest, Alabama, March 1975 William D. Boyer
1118156 Seedling(s) 1-yr-old sessile & pendulate oak regen in shelterwood in France upland Brian Lockhart
1118154 Seedling(s) Brian Lockhart
1171014 Seedling(s) seedling below parent Chris Schnepf
0908028 Seedling(s) dense patch of regeneration David J. Moorhead
0908029 Seedling(s) dense patch of regeneration David J. Moorhead
0908081 Seedling(s) advanced regeneration prior to final seed tree removal David J. Moorhead
2714082 Seedling(s) establishment at base of seed tree in a shelterwood cut in the Georgia Piedmont David J. Moorhead
1420040 Seedling(s) seedlings on a milacre plot, USDA Forest Service - Escambia Experimental Forest, Brewton, Alabama, 1947 University of Georgia Archive
0976030 Stand cut to 20 trees per acre at Manitou Experimental Forest Dave Powell
0976032 Stand Fraser Experimental Forest Dave Powell
0976082 Stand seed cut unit (Brock 7) with 10-15 leave trees/acre; machine piled/burned Dave Powell
0976083 Stand seed cut in Brock sale, unit 5, with 8-10 TPA left, machine piled/burned Dave Powell
0908007 Stand 15-20 trees per acre retention David J. Moorhead
0908018 Stand retaining 15-20 trees per acre David J. Moorhead
2714038 Stand Between aggregates. Green tree retention demonstration treatment 40% aggregated retention. Dog Prairie. Doug Maguire
2714039 Stand Between aggregates in Green tree retention demonstration treatment 40% aggregated retention. Dog Prairie. Doug Maguire
2714040 Stand Edge of Green tree retention demonstration treatment 40% aggregated retention. Dog Prairie. Doug Maguire
4798042 Stand in West Virginia John D. Hodges
5389059 Stand

Allocation of branches on the stumps in a research forest; Natural regeneration of oaks stand after the first cutting (shelterwood system)

Norbert Frank
4799011 Stand Scott Roberts
4799012 Stand West of Medford Scott Roberts
4799013 Stand 70% cover maintained to hold back hardwood competition. Scott Roberts
4799014 Stand H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Scott Roberts
4799015 Stand H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Scott Roberts
1202015 Stand Scott Roberts
1420151 Stand Compartment 94. USDA Forest Service - Escambia Experimental Forest, Brewton, Alabama. November 1961 Thomas C. Croker
1420165 Stand Camera point on USDA Forest Service - Escambia Experimental Forest, Brewton, Alabama. November 1963 Thomas C. Croker
1420044 Stand seed production cut, cut to 18 square feet basal area per acre in March 1950, seed traps under trees, photo taken in December 1957 William D. Boyer
1423063 Stand Red Branch Regeneration Area in August 1982. Escambia Experimental Forest, Alabama. Removal cut was done in January 1976. William D. Boyer
2714067 Structure Mapped 2.47 acre (1 ha) 65-year-old stand after shelterwood seed cut. 176 stems (71/A) were located and crown area mapped using a survey laser. Basal area is 75 square feet per acre dominated by yellow-poplar (yellow). Other species include: red maple (red), oaks (brown) and other hardwoods (blue). All understory trees 4-8" dbh were removed, which eliminated most of the red maple. Mary Ann Fajvan


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