Project Code: | BRL-01-040 |
Area: | Field Operations |
Sponsor: | Blue Ridge Lumber (1981) |
This Project’s purpose was to reduce competing vegetation which was overtopping the coniferous crop trees.
Objectives included identifying those blocks requiring follow-up tending for the following year, suppressing the growth of undesirable vegetation threatening the success of the regeneration, and to the release the crop trees so that they achieve free-to-grow status.
During the 2000 season, thirty-three cutblocks comprising 1167 hectares were surveyed and a total of 1036 hectares (35 cutblocks) were treated with an aerially applied herbicide for conifer release.
Keywords
Conifer Release
Weeding & Thinning
Blue Ridge Lumber
Herbicide Treatment – aerial
Density Management