Assessment of a Large-Scale Reforestation System with Containerized Seedlings on the Basis of 5-Year Experience at the Woodland Division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation in Maine and New Brunswick
Large-scale artificial reforestation programs are frequently initiated for the purpose of achieving higher yields through species conversion and through the use of genetically improved planting stock. These programs are especially attractive to a landowner who is facing the task of re-establishing a forest which has been or is in the process of being devastated by insect epidemic. Five years of experience have been now accumulated in large-scale artificial regeneration by the Woodland Division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation while battling to replace its spruce-fir forests which have been totally or partially lost to the spruce budworm.
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Author(s): Oscar Selin
Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Northeastern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1981