The Fall River long-term site productivity study in coastal Washington : site characteristics, methods, and biomass and carbon and nitrogen stores before and after harvest

Summary: The Fall River study is one of the more than 40 affiliate installations of the LTSP program initiated in 1989 by the US Forest Service and several collaborating organizations on major soil and vegetation types of the United States and Canada. This study is a long-term, replicated experiment in which imposed disturbances reflect field operational conditions as closely as possible and confounding effects of big-game browse and unknown site history have been removed. The main goal is to understand how ground-based forest harvest, slash/wood removal, vegetation management, and fertilization influence soil and tree processes and long-term site productivity on a highly productive site in coastal Washington.