Title: Long-term response of precommercially thinned aspen clones to Hypoxylon canker.

Author: Ostry, M.E.; Anderson, N.A.; Rugg, D.J.; Ward, K.T.

Year: 2004

Publication: Res. Pap. NC-341. St. Paul, MN, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 12 p.

Abstract: Reports of precommercially thinned quaking aspen to Hypoxylon canker across 47 years in northern Minnesota. Compares canker prevalence, tree mortality, tree density, height, diameter, and volume among two thinned treatments (aspen thinned, other hardwoods removed; aspen not thinned, other hardwoods removed) and a control (aspen not thinned, other hardwoods not removed).