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Climate Change and Canada's Forests: From Impacts to Adaptation
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Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect...
Climate Change and the Bioeconomy: Finding Silviculture Solutions for 21st Century Forests
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This fibre fact provides an overview of how salvage logging can provide an opportuntiy for the forest industry to supply Canada's bioeconomy with wood fibre as well as regenerate a forest.
Climate Change: Response of Black Spruce
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Climate change is an undeniable reality, and the boreal forest's response to accelerated global warming will surely have a major impact on forest ecosystems. The effect that higher concentrations of...
Climate Change Will Affect the Ability of Forest Management to Reduce Gaps Between Current and Presettlement Forest Composition in Southeastern Canada
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Context Forest landscapes at the boreal–temperate ecotone have been extensively altered. Reducing the gap between current and presettlement forest conditions through ecosystem-based forest management...
Clonal Variation in Coppiced and Uncoppiced Growth, Root-Sprout Stem Formation, and Biomass Partitioning in Salix interior on Two Highly Disturbed Site Types
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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...
Cluster Planting: Early Enhancement of Structural Diversity in a Reclaimed Boreal Forest
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Planting trees is an important step in re-establishing functioning forest ecosystems after industrial land disturbances. Conventional planting practices create forests with evenly spaced trees, at low...
Cluster Planting: Early Enhancement of Structural Diversity in a Reclaimed Boreal Forest
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Abstract: Planting trees is an important step in re-establishing functioning forest ecosystems after industrial land disturbances. Conventional planting practices create forests with evenly spaced...
Cold-Season Freeze Frequency is a Pervasive Driver of Subcontinental Forest Growth
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The reduction of freeze exposure with winter warming has consequences for carbon sequestration by northern forests. Quantifying the impact of these changes on tree growth is, however, challenging...
Common Pests of Arbutus in British Columbia
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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...
Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia
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This is the third version of a Canadian Forest Service tree disease identification guide for British Columbia. The first, "Some common tree diseases of British Columbia", by J.E. Bier, was published...
Comparison of edge effects from well pads and industrial roads on mixed upland boreal forest vegetation in Alberta.
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The industrial footprint of oil and gas extraction in Alberta, Canada dissects the landscape in a network of linear and polygonal disturbances such as roads and well pads. The changes to biotic and...
Comptabilisation du carbone forestier: comment le Canada évalue-t-il la contribution des forêts à la réduction des émissions?
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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...
Condition, Growth, and Projected Yield of Lodgepole Pine and Interior Spruce 20 Years After Rehabilitation of an Understocked Site in North-Central British Columbia: The Stony Lake Trial
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The Stony Lake trial was established in 1987 to benchmark growth performance of interior spruce ( Picea glauca [Moench] Voss x engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Dougl...
Conifer Defoliators of British Columbia
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Magnificent coniferous forests cloak all but the highest peaks and most arid interior valleys of British Columbia. Conifers are dominant in each of the province's varied forest ecosystems, from the...
Conservation Guidelines for Ecologically Sensitive Forested Sites on Private Woodlots within the Fundy Model Forest
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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...
Conserving Canada’s Ash Resource / La conservation des frênes du Canada
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The National Tree Seed Centre (NTSC) is safeguarding Canada’s forest genetic resources. In response to the threat posed by the emerald ash borer ( Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire), the NTSC is storing...
Converting Aspen Stands to White Spruce-Aspen Mixedwoods by Planting and Seeding, Manitoba
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Between 1960 and 1966, 21 planting and 14 seeding trials were established to convert aspen stands to spruce-aspen mixedwoods in three Manitoba Forest Management Sections. Scalped strips, varying in...
Could Restoration of a Landscape to a Pre‐European Historical Vegetation Condition Reduce Burn Probability?
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Montane regions throughout western North America have experienced closures of forest cover and increases of forest encroachment into grasslands due to climate change and fire suppression. These...