This Handbook Volume is designed to provide procedural guidance and minimal standards relevant to the application of sound silvicultural practices to manipulate stands as efficiently and effectively as possible across lands in trust or restricted status under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Although this handbook addresses silviculture and silvicultural systems, it is very important to keep in mind that tribal goals, objectives, preferences and possibly feelings play a primary role in the practice of silviculture on Indian lands and essentially are the starting point for all forest management. Tribal direction tells us whether they want employment and /or income from the forest and may impose definite constraints on the options and tools a silviculturist may use. Prescriptions should be based first on what the tribal public is asking of their lands and secondly on forest condition in order to determine how silvicultural practices can meet those goals. This Handbook Volume deals with the principles and procedures of sound forest vegetation management prescribed in silvicultural prescriptions on Indian lands. It is meant to give the user a broad national perspective concerning the development, implementation and documentation of silvicultural and forest vegetation altering treatments on Indian forest land.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs, Forestry and Wildland Fire Management

Region
Americas

Biome
Boreal, Temperate

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All