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| Field Trip "B"
Timber Management in interior Alaska- Native Lands |
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| Drive 45 minutes southwest of Fairbanks, along the George Parks Highway, to visit an area harvested in 1997. The land is owned by an Alaska Native Corporation, and managed by the Tanana Chiefs Conference Forestry Program. On the way, we'll discuss land ownership patterns and trends in forest management in interior Alaska. We'll have the opportunity to see all the forest types of this area, and discuss landscape-level forest dynamics and disturbance regimes. We'll get scenic views looking south over the Tanana River and the Tanana Flats to the Alaska Range. At the harvest unit, we'll discuss residual stand dynamics, wildlife issues, fire return intervals and reforestation success. The tour will continue to an individually-held Native allotment where pre-commercial thinning in 2001 released white spruce from an overstory of quaking aspen and paper birch. Management objectives, research activities and wildlife issues will be discussed in context with this release cut. We'll walk about a mile through woods; field boots are advised. |
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