Woodland Management and Productivity
(Only the soils suitable for production of commercial trees are listed.
Absence of an entry indicates that information was not available)
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| | Management concerns | Potential productivity |
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Soil name and |Woodland| | Equip- | | | | | |
map symbol | suit- |Erosion | ment |Seedling| Wind- | Common trees |Site |Produc-| Trees to
|ability |hazard | limita-|mortal- | throw | |index|tivity | plant
| group | | tion | ity | hazard | | |class* |
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AmA-------------| 8W9 |Slight |Moderate|Moderate|Severe |Cherrybark oak------| 90 | 8 |Cherrybark oak,
Amagon | | | | | |Eastern cottonwood--| 100 | --- | eastern
| | | | | |Water oak-----------| 100 | --- | cottonwood,
| | | | | |Willow oak----------| 100 | --- | water oak,
| | | | | |Nuttall oak---------| 100 | --- | willow oak,
| | | | | |Green ash-----------| 80 | --- | Nuttall oak,
| | | | | | | | | Shumard oak.
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* Productivity class is the yield in cubic meters per hectare per year calculated at the age of
culmination of mean annual increment for fully stocked natural stands.
** See description of the map unit for composition and behavior characteristics of the map unit.