S.6 Ep.6: Landscape Change: Dynamic Forest Restoration Blocks

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and strategies of implementing silviculture at a landscape scale through Dynamic Forest Restoration Blocks.

Foresters are pretty good at stand-level silviculture. But what if we want to make changes to forest vegetation at a much larger scale? Silviculture at scale to impact landscape-level change is much trickier, whether that’s aiming for a target age-class distribution or meeting the broad habitat needs of birds. Where do we even begin? In walks the concept of Dynamic Forest Restoration Blocks, or the strategy of breaking up the landscape into manageable and biologically meaningful units w...

Topics covered

• landscape change
• forest restoration
• silviculture
• habitat management

Keywords

• forest management
• age-class distribution
• biodiversity

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