Ecolab Manager, Lecturer The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, United States
Crop tree management enables landowners to select and focus on specific trees that meet their objectives. In a university-owned demonstration forest, adjacent control/2-sided/4-sided release zones exhibit the practice for interactive Woodland Stewards teaching opportunities, and a team has monitored tree growth rates and maple sap production qualities.
Learning Objectives:
Learn the basic definition and different application options of crop tree management
Understand the importance of light manipulation will be emphasized in relation to overstory canopy development and understory/midstory flush response.
Learn how a late pole stage maple stand can be managed for non-timber product management objectives by allocating resources to crop trees by examining data of differential diameter growth rates, sap Brix, and sap volume between experimental treatments.
