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Sustainable Forest Management for Eastern Ski Areas

By Jay Appleton

December 2006

Table of Contents

  Forward  
1. Introduction
2. Signs of Reduced Regenerative Capacity
3. Trail Cutting and Maintenance Guidelines
  1. Choosing Terrain

  2. Spruce-Fir Forest

  3. Northern Hardwood Forest

  4. Allelopathic Ferns

  5. Glades and Woods Cutting Practices

  6. Trail Tree Regeneration
4. Snowmaking Impacts
Skier looking down a tough woods line