HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN – Northern hardwood forests provide natural beauty, recreation, a source of lumber, wood pulp for paper products, raw material for biofuels. They also generate jobs and sustain rural economies.
There’s a system in place for assuring the productivity of northern hardwood forests. It’s called the selection silviculture system, a method of using partial harvests done to a strict formula to sustainably manage the trees. It’s been around centuries, and it works.
There’s only one problem.
A study by Michigan Technological University researchers found that the system generally isn’t being used.
For the full story, see http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2014/may/sustaining-northern-hardwood-forests-are-doing-what-think-were-doing.html.
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