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About Ecology and Silviculture of Northern Lake States Forests
![[four images:] Top photograph shows a trout lily growing in a northern hardwood forest;
second photograph shows a mechanical harvester cutting red pine trees in a forest management experiment;
the third photograph shows a mixed aspen and paper birch forest growing on a lakeside in northern Minnesota, and the bottom photograph shows a trout lily growing in a northern hardwood forest.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130216130203im_/http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4101/local-resources/images/about_collage.jpg "[four images:] Top photograph shows a trout lily growing in a northern hardwood forest;
second photograph shows a mechanical harvester cutting red pine trees in a forest management experiment;
the third photograph shows a mixed aspen and paper birch forest growing on a lakeside in northern Minnesota, and the bottom photograph shows a trout lily growing in a northern hardwood forest.") 
What we doOur primary interests are in evaluating forest management practices for effects on ecosystem composition, structure, and function and in devising and testing alternative management approaches that better insure ecological sustainability while maintaining options for wood and fiber production. Our work addresses a suite of important natural resource issues, including hazardous fuels and fire risk, impacts of invasive shrubs, sustaining/restoring forest biodiversity, riparian and wetland forest management, forest productivity, and evaluation of ecological forestry approaches We use observational studies, operational-scale management experiments, and modeling to accomplish our research objectives. We work across spatial scales, from stands to regional landscapes,
guided by the premise that we must understand stand-scale management
effects in a landscape context. |
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![[image:] Cover page Project Leader's Report - click here to download the pdf.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130216130203im_/http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4101/local-resources/images/PLreport_tn.jpg)
USDA Forest Service - North Central Research Station
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February 16, 2005