Dry Outwash
Scenario model
Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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No transition or restoration pathway between the selected states has been described
Target ecosystem state
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Description
The reference state is varied depending on landscape position and proximity to the coast. Two modal communities are highlighted and others follow:
• Pinus strobus - Pinus resinosa - Pinus rigida Forest
Translated Name: Eastern White Pine - Red Pine - Pitch Pine Forest
Common Name: Northeastern Dry Pine Forest (CEGL006259)
• Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak / Blue Ridge Blueberry – [Northern Bayberry] Woodland
Common Name: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak Woodland (CEGL006381)
Other communities include:
• Pinus strobus - Quercus (rubra, velutina) - Fagus grandifolia Forest
Translated Name: Eastern White Pine - (Northern Red Oak, Black Oak) - American Beech Forest
Common Name: Northeastern White Pine - Oak Forest (CEGL006293)
• Pinus rigida / Quercus ilicifolia / Morella pensylvanica Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Bear Oak / Northern Bayberry Woodland
Common Name: Coastal Pitch Pine / Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006315)
• Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba - Quercus rubra Forest
Translated Name: American Beech - White Oak - Northern Red Oak Forest
Common Name: Northeastern Atlantic Coastal Beech - Oak Forest (CEGL006377)
• Quercus ilicifolia - Quercus prinoides Scrub
Translated Name: Bear Oak - Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Scrub
Common Name: Outwash Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006111)
• Pinus rigida - Quercus (velutina, montana) Forest
Translated Name: Pitch Pine - (Black Oak, Chestnut Oak) Forest
Common Name: Inland Pitch Pine - Oak Forest (CEGL006290)
• Pinus rigida / Quercus ilicifolia / Lespedeza capitata Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Bear Oak / Round-head Bushclover Woodland
Common Name: Inland Pitch Pine / Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006025)
• Pinus rigida / Vaccinium spp. - Gaylussacia baccata Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Blueberry species - Black Huckleberry Woodland
Common Name: Pitch Pine / Heath Barrens (CEGL005046)
• Amelanchier canadensis - Viburnum spp. - Morella pensylvanica Scrub Forest
Translated Name: Canadian Serviceberry - Viburnum species - Northern Bayberry Scrub Forest
Common Name: Northern Tall Maritime Scrub Forest
• Juniperus virginiana / Morella pensylvanica Woodland
Translated Name: Eastern Red-cedar / Northern Bayberry Woodland
Common Name: Maritime Red-cedar Woodland (CEGL006212)
• Quercus stellata - Quercus velutina / Morella pensylvanica / Deschampsia flexuosa Forest
Translated Name: Post Oak - Black Oak / Northern Bayberry / Wavy Hairgrass Forest
Common Name: North Atlantic Coast Maritime Post Oak Forest (CEGL006373)
Submodel
Description
The Semi-natural State would expect plant communities where ecological processes are primarily operating with some land conditioning in the past or present, e.g., managed forests, or plant communities that are an artifact of land management e.g., predominately invasive plants.
Submodel
Mechanism
altered by human- induced Disturbance or Management
Relevant conservation practices
Practice | External resources |
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Tree/Shrub Establishment |
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Forest Land Management |
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Forest stand improvement for habitat and soil quality |
Mechanism
Disturbance, clearing, cutting
Relevant conservation practices
Practice | External resources |
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Brush Management |
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Land Clearing |
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Herbaceous Weed Control |
Mechanism
Plant removals, plantings, Invasive plant control, successional mgmt., forestry practices
Restoration & Mgmt, Forest Stand Improvement, Early Successional Habitat Development, Upland Wildlife Mgmt, Invasive spp. Control, Plant establishment
Relevant conservation practices
Practice | External resources |
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Brush Management |
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Tree/Shrub Establishment |
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Early Successional Habitat Development/Management |
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Forest Stand Improvement |
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Restoration and Management of Natural Ecosystems |
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Native Plant Community Restoration and Management |
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Forest Land Management |
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Invasive Plant Species Control |
Mechanism
Land clearing, cutting
Relevant conservation practices
Practice | External resources |
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Brush Management |
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Land Clearing |
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Herbaceous Weed Control |
Mechanism
Plant removals, plantings, Invasive plant control, successional mgmt., forestry practices
Restoration & Mgmt, Forest Stand Improvement, Early Successional Habitat Development, Upland Wildlife Mgmt, Invasive spp. Control, Plant establishment
Relevant conservation practices
Practice | External resources |
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Restoration and Management of Natural Ecosystems |
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Native Plant Community Restoration and Management |
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