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Title: Keeping your forest soils healthy and productive.
Author: Helgerson, Ole T.; Miller, Richard E.
Date: 2008
Source: Washington State University Extension. EB2019
Description: Soils are an integral structural part of your woodland and the larger forest ecosystem. Important forest soil functions include:
- Providing water, nutrients, and physical support for the growth of trees and other forest plants
- Allowing an exchange of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other gasses that affect root growth and soil organisms
- Providing a substrate for organisms linked with vital ecosystem processes
- Harboring root diseases and other pests
- Affecting water quantity and quality
Thus, how you protect and manage forest soils affects your forest's short- and long-term productivity and the water quality of adjoining streams and lakes, including their suitability for fish habitat and other uses. This publication will provide you with:
- An understanding of soil characteristics important to woodland management
- Management practices for maintaining and enhancing soil quality
- A guide for obtaining soil-specific information from USDA soil surveys
- A list of useful references
- A glossary of forest soil terminology
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Helgerson, Ole T.; Miller, Richard E. 2008. Keeping your forest soils healthy and productive.. Washington State University Extension. EB2019
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