Management of pine-hardwood mixtures or mixedwood forest types is gaining interest in the southeastern United States where landowner objectives/attitudes, rising management costs, timber and carbon markets, and logging workforce factors may provide rationale for favoring these forest types. However, few studies in the region have documented long-term stand development patterns for pine-hardwood mixtures. The objectives of this...

Elevated soil temperatures resulting from reintroduction of prescribed fire into long unburnt stands have been associated with unintended tree mortality. Several models exist to predict soil temperatures resulting from soil heating by fire; however, data to develop and validate these models are limited. A model to predict soil temperature at depths up to 25 inches (0.63 m) was developed from a data set from 46 prescribed burns...

Cavity-tree density (CTD) is an important indicator of habitat quality for cavity-dependent wildlife. However, the abundance of cavities and cavity trees can vary dramatically, even among trees or stands with similar attributes. This uncertainty can make it difficult to expand stand-levelestimates of cavity abundance to large landscapes, although it is often desirable to do so. This limits the utility of CTD as a measure of ha...