Invasive Plant Responses to Silvicultural Practices in the South

This guide is intended to aid foresters and managers in the southeastern United States in developing management plans and managing forests threatened by invasive plants. This guide integrates identification of invasive plants, potential mechanisms for spread (natural seed or vegetative production, or human induced spread by cultural practices) and a suite of silvicultural management/control practices. The first section of the guide includes simple descriptions of common silvicultural practices and how they alter the habitat. General guidelines for reducing the risk and impact of invasive plants are included in a bulleted list format. Profiles for thirteen common invasive plants give detailed information on identification and ecology as well as how they are expected to respond to the habitat alterations resulting from silvicultural practices. Quick reference tables summarizing the information in this book and allow the user to quickly find information and recommendations for each of these common invasive plant species are included in the back of this publication.

Available online at: http://www.invasive.org/silvicsforinvasives.pdf