Wisconsin's Forestland Woody Biomass Harvesting Guidelines

Eunice Padley, WI DNR
Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wisconsin’s Forestland Woody
Biomass Harvesting Guidelines . . . 7
2. Background and Implementation
Notes on General Guidelines. . . . 13
Guideline 1.A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Guideline 2.A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Guideline 3.A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Reminder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3. Background and Implementation
Notes on Site Specifi c Guidelines. . 22
Guideline 1.B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Guideline 2.B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Guideline 3.B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Guideline 4.B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Guideline 5.B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4. Application and Modifi cation
of Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Appendix A: Resources . . . . . . . . . 39
Appendix B: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . 45
Appendix C: Contributors . . . . . . . 49
*Appendix D: Identifying sites limited
under Guidelines 3.B, 4.B, and 5.B
*Appendix E: Biomass
Harvest Examples
*Note: In the electronic version of this document,
Appendices D and E are separate fi les.