Managing and conserving forests for biological diversity has become a major objective for forested landscapes in North America. This objective may be achieved by a combination of practices that provide a variety of forest successional stages (including old growth), tree species, stand structures and silvicultural treatments in a mosaic of habitats across a landscape. Perhaps the greatest opportunity to diversify forests lies in the vast areas of young second-growth lodgepole pine stands which are amenable to silvicultural practices that accelerate ecosystem development.

This brochure reports on two ongoing studies:

1. Ten-year results in pre-commercially thinned stands; and
2. Five-year results in thinned and fertilized stands.