Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Forest Research at Penobscot Experimental Forest: Overstory and regeneration data from the "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest 

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

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      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
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Abstract

    The Penobscot Experimental Forest (PEF) is located in the towns of Bradley and Eddington in east-central Maine, about 10 miles north of the city of Bangor. This approximately 3,900-acre experimental forest was established in 1950 as a site for long-term U.S. Forest Service research. Though there are 22 experimental forests in the Northern Research Station and 80 nationwide, the PEF is the only one in the transitional zone between the eastern broadleaf and boreal forests known as the Acadian Region. The PEF thus serves as an important and unique source of information about the ecology and silviculture of mixed-species northern conifers.

Keywords

  • forest harvest, forest management, forest regeneration, regeneration, silviculture,

Organizations

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service : lead
  • Penobscot Experimental Forest : lead

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    Data Table

    • Title: Overstory and regeneration data from the "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest 
    • Start Date: 2008-01-01
    • Description: This data package contains crop tree, overstory, sapling, and regeneration data collected at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine between 2008 and 2017. These data were collected as part of the project titled "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands: An economic and silvicultural assessment of alternatives". The Rehabilitation study examined two levels of intervention treatments against controls in two stands that had been subjected to repeated commercial clearcutting harvests, last occurring 20 and 25 years before. The intervention treatments were 1) moderate treatment, in which crop trees were identified and released, and 2) intensive treatment, in which crop trees were released, unacceptable growing stock was removed, and fill planting of red spruce was conducted. Available data include crop tree species, locations, diameter at beast height (DBH), height, and mortality; overstory species, locations, and DBH; regeneration tally by species; and sapling species and DBH.

    • Purpose: This study was used to determine the rehabilitation abilities of mixedwood stands that had been subjected to repeated commercial clearcutting harvest.

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    • Object Name: VMC.1389.2851

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Kenefic, Laura S.; Gerndt, Kathryn M.; Puhlick, Joshua J.; Kuehne, Christian. 2019. Overstory and regeneration data from the "Rehabilitation of cutover mixedwood stands" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0024-2

    • Online Distribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/Forest_research_penobscot_Forest/dataset/overstory-regeneration-data-from-rehabilitation-cutover

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: Species ID
      • Label: Species ID
      • Description: Species ID in the Penobscot Experimental Forest Rehab Study dataset
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • Species List: Species codes for Penobscot Experimental Forest Rehab Study dataset
        • Code: Acer pensylvanicum
          • Definition: ITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
        • Code: Acer rubrum
          • Definition: ITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)
        • Code: Acer saccharum
          • Definition: ITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
        • Code: Betula alleghaniensis
          • Definition: ITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)
        • Code: Fagus grandifolia
          • Definition: ITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
        • Code: Picea rubens
          • Definition: ITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)
        • Code: Unknown
          • Definition: ITIS #823, (Radiocystis )
        • Code: Acer pensylvanicum
          • Definition: ITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
        • Code: Acer rubrum
          • Definition: ITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)
        • Code: Acer saccharum
          • Definition: ITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
        • Code: Betula alleghaniensis
          • Definition: ITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)
        • Code: Fagus grandifolia
          • Definition: ITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
        • Code: Picea rubens
          • Definition: ITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)

    Methods

    • No methods recorded for this dataset

    Sampling Equipment

    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset