Southern Research Station

Title: A Practical Field Method of Site Evaluation for Commercially Important Southern Hardwoods

Author: Baker, James B.; Broadfoot, W.M.

Date: 1979

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. SO-26. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 51 p.

Station ID: GTR-SO-026

Description: A new method of evaluating sites for planted cottonwood, sweetgum, sycamore, green ash, hackberry, sugarberry, pecan, yellow poplar and Nuttall, water, willow, swamp chestnut, Shumard and cherrybark oaks is presented.

Keywords: Site index, soil properties, Populus deltoides, Liquidambar styraciflua, Platanus occidentalis, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Celtis occidentalis, C. laevigata, Carya illinoensis, Liriodendron tulipifera, Q. nuttallii, Q. nigm, Q. phellos, Q. michauxii, Q. shumardii, Quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia.

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Baker, James B.; Broadfoot, W.M.  1979.  A Practical Field Method of Site Evaluation for Commercially Important Southern Hardwoods.   Gen. Tech. Rep. SO-26. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 51 p..