Grass seeding is a common practice on cutovers on open-range situations in western Canada where cattle graze. |
The frequency of old, closed canopy forests has been reduced, and cutovers and immature forests have increased. |
Forest cutovers are recognized by a combination of spectral reflectance, internal pattern, and context. |
The same stand characteristics were used to compare cutovers of various ages to coniferous forests using principal component analyses to determine if they share similar characteristics. |
We found at the coarse-scale that coniferous forests were most preferred but did not differ from cutovers, and at the fine-scale caribou used coniferous forests with more forage. |
Large areas of poorly stocked cutovers of this type have accumulated in the absence of planting. |