William B. Leak

Contents...

• Title
• Educational Background
• Research Interests
• Current Research
• Selected Publications
• Email, phone, fax

Title

Research Forester

Educational Background

B.S., SUNY, 1953
M.F., SUNY, 1956

Research Interests

Silviculture and Site Evaluation

Current Research

Size-of-opening studies on the Bartlett Experimental Forest: a large study involving a major timber sale involving a range of opening sizes from single trees to a 20-acre clearcut to be monitored for timber/wildlife responses.

Currently analyzing 48 years of tree grade change in a northern hardwood stand harvested three times by individual-tree selection. And, currently establishing a commercial thinning study in a northern hardwood stand clearcut in 1934-35, precommercially thinned with several treatments in 1960, and now being readied for a series of commercial thinning treatments.

Selected Publications

Leak, W.B.; Yamasaki, M.; Kittredge, D.B.,Jr.; Lamson, N.I.; Smith, M.L. 1997. Applied ecosystem management on nonindustrial forest land. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-239. Radnor, PA: USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 30p.

Email, phone, fax

• Email: bleak@fs.fed.us
• Phone: (603) 868-7655
• FAX: (603) 868-7604