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This field guide is designed as a stewardship tool primarily for forest harvesters, woodland managers, and private woodland owners working in Nova Scotia.
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Ungava Peninsula Caribou Aboriginal Round Table
The Indigenous Peoples of Ungava self-organized into the Ungava Peninsula Caribou Aboriginal Round Table (“UPCART” or “the Round Table”) in early 2013. For the first time in human history the Peoples...
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Jean-François Côté
Joan Luther
Patrick Lenz
Richard Fournier
Olivier van Lier
Information about wood fibre attributes (WFA) is important for optimizing forest resource management and increasing the competitiveness of the sector. Many factors influence WFA at both the plot (e.g...
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Tyler Searls
X. Zhu
D.W. McKenney
R. Mazumder
J. Steenberg
G. Yan
F.-R. Meng
Climate has a considerable influence on tree growth. Forest managers benefit from the empirical study of the historic relationship between climatic variables and tree growth to support forest...
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Alex Mosseler
J.E. Major
D. McPhee
Ten-year-old bur oak ( Quercus macrocarpa Michx.) saplings established on the exposed, infertile, treeless barrens of a former coal mine site in New Brunswick, Canada, were harvested to assess the...
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Salix interior Rowlee (INT) is a wide-ranging North American willow from the small taxonomic group Salix section Longifoliae, notable for its ability to form multi-stemmed vegetative stem colonies...
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Resource Date:
November
2018
Future human land use and climate change may disrupt movement behaviors of terrestrial animals, thereby altering the ability of individuals to move across a landscape. Some of the expected changes...
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Julie Singleton
Judy Loo
John Foley
This manual provides management guidelines aimed at protecting biodiversity in ecologically sensitive sites found on private woodlots within the 420 000-ha Fundy Model Forest of southeastern New...
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J.E. Hurley
J.A. Loo
P. DesRochers
H.E. Hirvonen
Highlights Invasive alien insect and disease species are of increasing concern to the health and economic viability of the forest ecosystems within the ecozone. Brown spruce longhorn beetle, an alien...
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Claudia Méndez-Espinoza
Geneviève Parent
Patrick Lenz
André Rainville
Laurence Tremblay
Greg Adams
Andrew McCartney
Éric Bauce
John MacKay
The spruce budworm (SBW) is a forest insect pest that causes damage to boreal trees in North America. Resistance against SBW in white spruce had previously been linked to the content of specific...
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B.J. Sutherland
F.F. Foreman
This guide will help forest management personnel in northwestern Ontario to select and use mechanical site preparation equipment in order to produce growing conditions suitable for germination and...
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"A Guide to Hardwood Planting on Abandoned Farmland in Southern Ontario" was first published in 1979. In the past 10 years, much new knowledge has been gained about species requirements and new...
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Catherine Chagnon
Mathieu Bouchard
David Pothier
Resource Date:
March
2022
Forest logging has contributed to the decline of several woodland caribou populations by causing the fragmentation of mature coniferous stands. Such habitat alterations could be worsened by spruce...
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Isabelle Duchesne
Marie Deslauriers
David Paré
Christian Hébert
Richard Hamelin
Topics covered: Impact of planting density on stem shape in jack pine. The role of gravity in the development of white spruce. Taking heath and moss into account in the management of black spruce...
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This report was prepared to facilitate the use of scientific and common names of insects and mites dealt with by the forestry community of Ontario and includes most of the species recorded by the...
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Zhan Li
Joanne White
Michael Wulder
Txomin Hermosilla
Andrew Davidson
Alexis Comber
Large-area land cover maps are produced to satisfy different information needs. Land cover maps having partial or complete spatial and/or temporal overlap, different legends, and varying accuracies...
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Camile Sothe
Alemu Gonsamo
Joyce Arabian
James Snider
Resource Date:
August
2021
Canada has extensive forests and peatlands that play key roles in global carbon cycle. Canadian soils and peatlands are assumed to store approximately 20% of the world’s soil carbon stock. However...
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Julie Singleton
Judy Loo
John Foley
This manual provides management guidelines aimed at protecting biodiversity in ecologically sensitive sites found on private woodlots within the 420 000-ha Fundy Model Forest of southeastern New...
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Jonathan Frenette
Fanie Pelletier
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Habitat loss, fragmentation and alteration are frequently identified as important threats to biodiversity, inducing major changes in the structure and composition of species communities and the...
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J.D. Stewart
T.N. Jones
R.C. Noble
Long-term data from established field experiments are required to properly evaluate different silvicultural options and to provide the basis for development and validation of growth models. Such data...