USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges
Hayes, Deborah C. / Stout, Susan L. / Crawford, Ralph H. / Hoover, Anne P. Long-term Forest Service research studies are the source of ideas, tools and research methods that we now take for granted. These range from the effects of fire exclusion on forest and rangeland structure and composition through modern tree care and vegetation control. Innovative experimental designs, such as the use of paired watersheds to understand the effects of forest management on water quality and quantity, were developed on USDA Fores...