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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This pamphlet is about old-growth forests in Canada. It includes a map that shows the Forest Regions of Canada and provides examples of different old-growth forest types in some of these regions.
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Resource Date:
September
2023
Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
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This technical note provides planting and tending recommendations for sugar maple.
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Planting trees and shrubs in riparian habitats has numerous advantages, from which all waterfront property owners, cottagers, farmers, and other users will benefit. This document provides information...
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Nelson Thiffault
Caludie-Maude Canuel
Michael Hoepting
James Farrell
This fact sheet provides an overview of a study on the management implications of pre-commercial thinning in balsam fir. While the effects of pre-commercial thinning on stand growth and quality are...
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Woodpecker activity on ash trees in the winter may not seem worrisome; however, it may be a sign that a beetle is hiding under the bark. Could it be the emerald ash borer?
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Pruning is a technique used to limit or train tree and shrub growth, improve appearance, compensate for root loss, influence flowering and fruiting, and remove damaged or diseased parts. This leaflet...
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C. Li
H. Barclay
B. D. Roitberg
B. Lalonde
S. Huang
K. Dasvinder
J. Fera
This fibre fact provides an overview of what forest compensatory growth is and how the TreeCG model can be used to detect and plan for compensatory growth within a forest stand.
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Chris Powter
Lawrence Kryviak
Greg Balko
Al Watson
Chemical characteristics of sludge, and precautions required to protect workers, were considered major obstacles to success. However, the physical soil characteristics created by the sludge were worse
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Seventy-eight reclamation practitioners from government, industry, consulting, academia, and the services sector gathered in Edmonton on March 6, 2024, to highlight and discuss specific issues facing...
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L.D. Yeates
R.F. Smith
S.I. Cameron
J. Letourneau
Methods for greenhouse propagation of rooted cuttings of Canada yew ( Taxus canadensis) are described. Specific details on the collection and handling of cuttings, greenhouse culture, and post-rooting...
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J. C. White
M. Wulder
E. Naesset
F. E. Fassnacht
Remote sensing has developed into an omnipresent technology in the scientific field of forestry and is also increasingly used in an operational fashion. However, the pace and level of uptake of remote...
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Iuliia Burdun
Michel Bechtold
Valentina Sagris
Annalea Lohila
Elyn Humphreys
Ankur Desai
Mats Nilsson
Gabrielle De Lannoy
Ülo Mander
Resource Date:
September
2020
The OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) is a physically-based approach for remote soil moisture estimation. OPTRAM is based on the response of short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance to vegetation water...
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This technical note summarizes the feasibility of on-site interim storage of bare root black spruce tree seedlings, details snow-cache construction, and notes the costs and savings associated with the...
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The literature is reviewed with the aim of consolidating silviculturally important information about interactions between root system development and soil properties; a complementary objective is to...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This maintenance schedule outlines the care that trees need in each season. It can be used as a checklist year after year. You can adapt it to your local area and the specific needs of your project.
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Authors
Jean-François Côté
Olivier van Lier
Dasvinder Kambo
This fibre fact demonstrates that fine-scale structural information derived from t-lidar and new modeling techniques can improve wood fibre attribute predictions.
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Philippe Tanguay
Richard Hamelin
In the era of molecular biology, DNA barcoding is being used to fill gaps in taxonomy and confirm findings obtained through traditional approaches based on morphological differences between species...
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Jeremy Biggs
Stefanie von Fumetti
Mary Kelly-Quinn
Resource Date:
November
2016
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Trees are constantly exposed to a multitude of micro-organisms, but only a few are capable of causing disease. When trees come under attack from micro-organisms, their primary line of defence is a...