Estimated decrease in productivity for pacific silver fir as elevation increases

• Main Author: Klinka, Karel
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia 1998
• Subjects: West coast hemlock; Western hemlock; Forest productivity; Mountain hemlock; Pacific silver fir; Abies amabilis; Elevation; Site index; Pacific; Forbes; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/667

When making decisions on which areas to harvest in a sustained yield, even-flow manner in mountainous areas such those in coastal British Columbia, it is important to know how timber productivity changes with elevation. This information allows foresters to decide at what elevation to start increasin...