retired Hardwood Silviculture LLC Gentry, Arkansas, United States
Desired Forest Conditions for Wildlife is a strategy that places management priorities on wildlife habitat with timber management being of secondary importance. Quantitative measures are used to ensure a heterogenous stand structure that creates a wide variety of niches for wildlife.
Learning Objectives:
Conduct management practices in southern bottomland forests that emphasize wildlife habitat by creating diverse stand structures..
Describe quantitative measures such as overstory and midstory canopy coverage, relative basal area, understory cover, number of dominant trees, number of snags, number of cavity and den trees, and coefficient of variation in basal area to increase diversity of stand structure for wildlife habitat.
