Robinson Forest - Resistance

Treatment: maintain relatively unchanged conditions over time

Management Goals

View looking out over a hilly, densly forested landscape.
Views at Robinson Forest in the summer. Photo Credit: Jacob
Muller, University of Kentucky.
  • Maintain an even-aged stand with current species composition of oak, hickory, and mixed mesophytic species, allowing for landscape variation
  • Increase resistance to drought, insets, and diseases
  • Increase tree vigor and seed production in mature trees
  • Remove undesirable seed sources and species
  • Alter understory to promote development of advance reproduction of oaks
  • Maintain and protect hemlock where present

Strategies & approaches

  • 2- or 3-step shelterwood
      • Preparatory cut (if needed) targeting ingrowth in the mid and understory to increase crown vigor and reduce midstory competition
      • Establishment cut to reduce stocking based on individual site conditions and allow for the release of advanced regeneration
      • A final overstory removal is expected in the future once desired seedlings and saplings have established
  • Chemical or mechanical understory competition control
  • Use of prescribed fire will be assessed following the final overstory removal

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Site Leads & Partners

Jacob Muller and John Lhotka (University of Kentucky) are the site leads for the Robinson Forest ASCC Site. Other key partners include The University of Kentucky Department of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Kentucky Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky Natural Resources Conservation Service, Kentucky Division of Forestry, and the Kentucky Forest Industries Association.

Jacob Muller
Robinson Forest ASCC Site Lead

Assistant Professor of Hardwood Silviculture & Forest Operations Extension
University of Kentucky
730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073
(859) 257-5666
jacob.muller@uky.edu

John Lhotka
Robinson Forest ASCC Site Co-Lead

Professor of Silviculture, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of Kentucky
730 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40546-0073
(859) 257-9701
john.lhotka@uky.edu