Cutfoot Experimental Forest - Resistance
Treatment: maintain relatively unchanged conditions over time
Management Goals
- 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
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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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 (retired)
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
Doug kastendick
Manager
Ecologist
Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
1831 Hwy. 169. E.
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
douglas.n.kastendick@usda.gov
Maria Janowiak
Site Partner
ASCC Director
USFS Northern Research Station
Houghton, MI
Phone: 906-482-6303
mailto:Maria.Janowiak@usda.gov
Rebecca A. Montgomery
Site Partner
Professor
University of Minnesota
314 Green Hall,
1530 Cleveland Avenue North
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 612-624-7249
rebeccam@umn.edu