Cutfoot Experimental Forest - Resistance

Treatment: maintain relatively unchanged conditions over time

Management Goals

 Snowy pine forest with cut logs to the left and right.
Resistance treatment post-harvest. Photo Credit: Josh Kragthorpe, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station.
 
  • Life boat red pine into a drier future by increasing soil moisture availability during drought
  • Maintain red pine dominance (90% basal area) while increasing soil moisture availability during drought
  • Productivity remains high and disturbance remains low, but there may be variability within an acceptable range
  • Reduce stocking closer to woodland structure

Strategies & approaches

 
Resistance canopy density. Photo Credit:
Jacob Muller, University of Minnesota.
 
  • Uniform (free) thin (100 ft2/acre) removing red pine and jack pine to maintain species diversity
  • Maintain red pine dominance

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Resilience

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Transition

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Site Leads & Partners

Brian Palik (USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station) is the site lead for the Cutfoot Experimental Forest ASCC project site. Site level coordination is supported by Doug Kastendick (USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station). Key partners include the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Chippewa National Forest, Linda Nagel (Utah State University), Tony D’Amato (University of Vermont), Peter Clark (University of Vermont), Miranda Curzon (Iowa State University), Rebecca Montgomery (University of Minnesota), Toni Lynn Morelli (USGS), Alexej Siren (University of New Hampshire).

Brian Palik
Site Lead

Research Ecologist
Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
1831 Hwy. 169. E.
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
Phone: 218-326-7116
bpalik@fs.fed.us