Recognizing and Overcoming Difficult Site Conditions for Afforestation of Bottomland Hardwoods
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Recognizing and Overcoming Difficult Site Conditions for Afforestation of Bottomland Hardwoods
SEPTEMBER 2004 183 In the last decade, about 370,000 acres (150,000 ha) of economically marginal farmland in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) have been restored to bottomland hardwood forests (Stanturf and others 1998, King and Keeland 1999, Schoenholtz and others 2001). Planting of this considerable acreage is due to several federal programs, such as the Wetlands Reserve Program (W...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Restoration
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1522-4740,1543-4079
DOI: 10.3368/er.22.3.183