This webinar will discuss factors to consider when making silvicultural decisions in degraded stands as well as some common scenarios and their corresponding recommended management approaches.

Forests may become degraded due to unplanned disturbance, damaging forest health events, or improper past management.  Often, these disturbances result in variable and complex conditions within a forest that make it difficult to apply standard/common management approaches with predictable and successful outcomes.  Therefore, some creativity by managers is needed in restoring function to these degraded forests.  Guidance shared in this program is informed by the collective experience of many different forest managers in the Allegheny Forest Health Collaborative who have cooperatively developed some common strategies for managing degraded forest stands.

Presented by:  Sarah Wurzbacher, Forestry Extension Educator, Penn State Extension 

Silvicultural Options for Degraded Woodlots

James C. Finley Center for Private Forests

Address

416 Forest Resources Building
University Park, PA 16802

James C. Finley Center for Private Forests

Address

416 Forest Resources Building
University Park, PA 16802