-Global change and wildland fire activity
- Data acquisition - permanent sample plot network
- Decision support systems for allowable cut effect
- Development of a jack pine budworm decision support system for Ontario
- Aquatic ecotoxicology - Neem
- Aquatic responses to forestry practices
- Environmental chemistry - research, assessment and modeling
- Forest regeneration assessment using high-resolution CIR digital camera imaging
- Knowledge benchmarking and meta-Analysis for Allowable Cut Effect (ACE)
- Investigation of forest fire behavior and impacts
- The physical processes of surface and crown fire behavior
- Remote sensing and fire effects
- Ice storm recovery of privately owned managed forest lands
- Impact of acid deposition on the biogeochemistry of jack pine forests
- Monitoring forest health - Ontairo
- Canadian Ecology Centre Forestry Research Partnership
- Forest succession studies under natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes
- Physiology and environmental fitness
- Red crossbills as landscape indicators of old
forest ecosystems
- Effects of herbaceous and woody competition on white pine growth and quality
- Effects of vegetation management practices on aspen wood quality
- Vegetation management alternatives
- Vegetation management strategies
- Infrastructure management: The Black Sturgeon Boreal Mixedwood Research Project
- Ontario Model Forest Network
- Technology transfer of Forestry Research Partnership results
- Biodiversity of old growth white pine
- Biodiversity issues in southern Ontario forests
- Effects of inten0sive forest management on biodiversity at multiple scales
- Marten (Martes americana) as indicators and umbrella species in eastern boreal forests
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| Principal Collaborators: | CFS, OMNR |
| Lead Investigator: | Peter Newton |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5615 |
| E-mail: | pnewton@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Historically, density manipulation has been the dominant theme underlying
intensive forest management (IFM) programs within Canada: national statistics
indicate that approximately $1 billion were spent on silviculture treatments
in 1995 and included the planting of approximately 641 million seedlings
on 256,400 hectares and precommercially thinning on 167,746 hectares.
Basically, the effect of these practices at the stand-level is to decrease
the time to operability status and increase product value over the rotation.
Furthermore, when temporal/spatial explicit stand-level responses are
scaled to the forest-level within forest management units with unbalanced
age-structures and excess mature stands, increased annual allowable cuts
(AAC) via the allowable cut effect (ACE) is possible given the change
in stand-sequencing within the harvesting queue.
Objectives:
To upgrade existing stand density management diagrams by developing stand
density management models for selected species regionalized for Tembec's
productive forest.
Location of Project Activities:
Sault Ste. Marie, Northeastern Ontario
Key Deliverables:
Compilation of existing data sets for black spruce and jack pine; locate
the first group of temporary permanent sample plots on Tembec's licensed
areas in managed black spruce and jack pine stands.
Expected Benefits:
The outputs will permit a method to identify existing stands to be thinned
and determining the timing, type of thinning treatment and number of trees
or basal area to be removed; selecting initial planting densities and
spatial configurations to attain operability/ACE targets; and, develop
site-specific integrated strategic density management control regimes
for maximizing net forest production, product value and carbon sequestration.
Sources of Funding:
CFS A-base, Ontario's Living Legacy Trust (OLLT), Tembec
Cooperators:
John Parton, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Vic Wearn, Tembec
Inc.
Other Collaborators:
Canadian Ecology Centre
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Administrative support
Links to Internet Sites:
http://www.forestresearch.ca/partnership_projects/fibre_production/fibre_production.htm
