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The deeper soil salvage depth (40 cm) was better than the shallow salvage depth (15 cm) at establishing a forest understory plant community characteristic of the boreal forest.
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Globally, forests play a significant natural role, as they absorb and sequestrate carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This carbon sequestration mitigates the phenomenon commonly...
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Annosus root and butt rot was first reported in Quebec in 1989. The causal fungus enters a pine stand by colonizing the surface of freshly cut stumps. The disease spreads through contact between the...
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K.A. Baldwin
P.W.C. Uhlig
M.C. Wester
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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K.A. Baldwin
J.-P. Saucier
P.W.C. Uhlig
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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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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One of the challenges of partial cutting operations is minimizing damage to residual trees. In these types of cuts, large pieces of forestry equipment must be manoeuvred in somewhat confined spaces...
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One of the goals of forest management is to sustain site productivity so that repeated harvests can be undertaken without loss in growth potential. Canada promotes the development of sustainable...
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With climate change, current research predicts an increase in forest fires in the wildland-human interface or WHI; several inhabited areas will be more at risk in the years to come. Despite this...
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N. Kingsbury
A. Lewis-Gibbs
(Fast Tests for Rating and Amelioration of Conifer) – A collaboration among CWFC researchers, academia, government and industry transforms traditional tree breeding programs by improving genetic...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
Jeffrey Fidgen
Le flétrissement du chêne est une maladie vasculaire causée par le champignon envahissant Bretziella fagacearum. Le champignon est répandu l’est des États-Unis et, depuis 2021, a été observé à moins...
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Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Each year...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Canada has 362 million hectares of forests that support a wide range of social, cultural, economic and ecological services. Many of these services are monitored by the forest sector, often summarized...
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Nelson Thiffault
Michael Hoepting
Jeff Fera
Jean-Martin Lussier
Guy Larocque
This fact sheet provides an overview of a red pine spacing trial experiment established in 1953 near the Petawawa Research Forest (PRF) in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. The experiment provides...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Minimal disturbance is an approach to oil and gas development that aims to preserve the attributes of the original site as much as possible during development. Minimal disturbance practices include...
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V. Fewster
Chris MacQuarrie
Jeffrey Fidgen
The hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae) is an introduced pest of hemlock trees in eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Hemlock woolly adelgid is also present in British Columbia but is a...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Each year, the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) provides estimates of the amount of carbon in our managed forests and the changes in these amounts over time. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)...