The Young Stand Thinning and Diversity Study is a long-term research and demonstration project in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area designed to determine if different thinning, underplanting, and snag creation treatments can accelerate the development of late-successional habitat in 35-50 year old plantations.

Young Stand Thinning and Diversity Study Reports & Publications

Campbelll, J.L., G. Alberti, J. Martin, B.E. Law. 2009. Carbon dynamics of a ponderosa pine plantation following a thinning treatment in the northern Sierra Nevada Forest Ecology and Management 257: 453-463

Heather Keith, Brendan G. Mackey, and David B. Lindenmayer. 2009. Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world’s most carbon-dense forests. PNS 106(28): 11635 - 11640.

Hudiburg, Tara, Beverly Law, David P. Turner, John L. Campbell, Dan Donato, and Maureen Duane. 2009. Carbon dynamics of Oregon and northern California forests and potential land-based carbon storage. Ecological Applications 19:163–180.

Kerr, A. 2007. Thinning Certain Oregon Forests to Restore Ecological Function. The Larch Company. Ashland, OR

S. S. Chan, D. J. Larson, K. G. Maas-Hebner, W. H. Emmingham, S. R. Johnston, D. A. Mikowski. 2006. Overstory and understory development in thinned and underplanted Oregon Coast Range Douglas-fir stands. Can. J. For. Res./Rev. 36(10): 2696-2711

Carey, A. B. 2003. Biocomplexity and restoration of biodiversity in temperate coniferous forest: inducing spatial heterogeneity with variable- 
density thinning. Forestry 76(2): 127-136

Churchill, D. 2003. Fact Sheet #24 The Emerging Consensus for Active Management in Young Forest.

P. S. Muir, R. L. Mattingly, J. C. Tappeiner, J. D. Bailey, W. E. Elliott, J. C. Hagar, J. C. Miller, E. B. Peterson, E. E. Starkey. 2002. Managing for biodiversity in young Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon. Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR– 2002-0006. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division. Washington, DC. 76 pp.

V. Rapp. 2002. Restoring Complexity: Second-Growth Forests and Habitat Diversity in Science Update. USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Portland, OR

M. G. Hunter. 2001. Management in Young Forests. Communiqué No. 3. Cascade Center for Ecosystem Management. Corvallis, OR. 28 pp.

J. F. Franklin, D. R. Berg, D. A. Thornburgh, J. C. Tappeiner. 1997. Alternative silvicultural approaches to timber harvesting: variable retention harvest systems. Pages 111-139 in K. Kohm and J. F. Franklin (eds.). CREATING A FORESTRY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Island Press. Washington, DC.