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Reduction in growth of pole-sized Ponderosa pine related to a Pandora moth outbreak in central Oregon

A pandora moth (Coloradia pandora Blake) outbreak began in 1991 in a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws) spacing study area that also included scattered sugar pine (P. lambertiana Dougl). The...
Lodgepole pine development after early spacing in the Blue Mountains of Oregon

Seedlings were thinned to spacings of 5, 9, 12, 15, and 18 feet and measured periodically. Twenty-seven years after treatment, quadratic mean diameters increased curvilinearity (p < or = 0.05) as spacing...