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Kauri thinning trial, Russell Forest

Document Type
Numerical data
Author
Lloyd, R.C.
Project Creator
NZ Forest Service
Current Holder
Forest Research Institute
Accession Number
TTT000086
Old Accession Number
TTT000086
Location
Held in Scion archives
MS Number
FRI 21
Other Reference Number
Sample plot A314
Future Storage
Forest Research Institute archives
Period
1963-1983
Volume
100 pp
Content
Location plan. 6 folders.These folders have many sheets on growth measurements, some summaries but no final report or analysis, except that R Lloyd states that volumes and volume increments are in an unpublished volume titled "Kauri volumes, second crop 1979" (copy held by FRI). There were utilisation thinnings. The object of A314 in 1963 was "to determine the response to thinning of dense kauri poles - 2 grades (to leave 60 or 100 stems/acre) thinned area was 4 ha, including a control of 0.4 ha. Folders have duplicated items and are disorganised. There was confusion about 1963 plots established but the trial was re-established in 1982, see memo by forester Frank Eichel to T Cooper (11.2.83).
Source
Russell Forest, Cmpt 26, Papakauri Block
Future Work
Analysis of data and conclusions required.
Reference
Broad account contained in "Kauri Management Review" (J Halkett, 1973).
General Note
R Lloyd laid out and measured trials carefully, but files were gathered and dispersed on closing of Kauri Management Unit about 1986. Difficult to draw coherent picture with this trial and others. Was assessed as category A plot (useful) in 1992 review. Summary of plot attached to original record. See Exp A660 for analysis of growth in A314 and work for future thinning prescriptions in kauri pole stands.
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Researchers
R C Lloyd, F Eichel
Security
Medium
Restriction
Subject to FRI approval
Species
kauri (Agathis australis)
Keywords
Kauri, Russell Forest, Thinning
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