Beech Management
- Document Type
- Reports, Letters
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Archives New Zealand
- Accession Number
- TTT001016
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000016
- Location
- Dunedin Archives
- Archives Number
- CATM, 18286, D68, 161c, 15/3/91
- Period
- 1973 - 1981
- Volume
- Approx. 40 pp
- Content
- Contains a report on 'Beech Management Practice and Research in Western Southland' concerned with trials conducted. It covers aspects of achieving adequate silver beech regeneration following logging of a mature stand, by using various techniques. This report also investigates the manipulation of the resultant young stands up to pole stage (approx. 80 years) by thinning and pruning to achieve high grade sawlogs in the shortest possible rotation.
- Source
- Western Southland
- Future Work
- No.
- General Note
- There are also notes in this file on the West Coast Beech Project concerning the major forest categories, historical information of the beech forest and the brief notes on the management of beech forests and motivation for the Forest Service proposals.
- Sort
- Adaquate. Sorted by date. The relevant report is in the middle of the file.
- Publish
- Yes.
- Researchers
- D Franklin
- Security
- High
- Species
- silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii), mountain beech (Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides)
- Keywords
- Beech Management, Pruning, Regeneration, Thinning
- Subject Areas
- Regeneration: Applying various techniques to achieve silver beech regeneration.
- Silviculture: Thinning and pruning of beech trees to produce high grade timber.