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Record #:
28341
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This study examined chemical status and its relationship to pine wood productivity, following plantation management, in pocosin soils of Eastern North Carolina. Results suggest that loblolly pine should be favored over pond pine in nearly all pine plantations.
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Record #:
28333
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Demand for value-added forest products and an abundance of unused small-diameter timber have created interest in structural uses for small-diameter timber. This study examined indicators of small-diameter loblolly pine tree taper in the Duke Forest on the North Carolina Piedmont, so that managers can more easily evaluate the potential for applications.
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31430
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Loblolly pine and sycamore show the most promise so far of trees that might be grown in North Carolina specifically for energy. Dr. Douglas J. Frederick of North Carolina State University spent five years evaluating tree growth and energy potential. This article discusses Frederick’s project and the potential to establish experimental wood-energy plantations.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 15 Issue 12, Dec 1983, p29, il
Record #:
28390
Abstract:
Understory vegetation biomass and species richness response to site preparation treatments, fertilization trials and drainage locations in loblolly pine and pond pine plantations were studied in an Eastern North Carolina pocosin. Results indicate whether some ecosystem functions are being lost.