Overview

As societal perceptions of the role of federal forests have changed, so have strategies for managing these forests. The DEMO experiment arose in response to a need to formally evaluate the silvicultural and ecological tradeoffs, as well as the social perceptions, of new approaches to forest management - in particular, the retention of live trees at varying levels and/or spatial patterns. Here we provide a brief overview of the history and evolution of the DEMO Study, the experimental design, and the major areas of investigation.