-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 |
| Project Leader(s): | A. Hopkin |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5612 |
| E-mail: | ahopkin@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To adapt the SBWDSS to Tembec inventory, management plan, and budworm
impact data. To implement the SBWDSS on the Tembec landbase in Ontario.
To conduct strategic planning analyses evaluating effects of protection
policy and budworm outbreak scenarios on growing stock and sustainable
harvest levels. To determine procedures and data requirements for SBWDSS
implementation on other landbases and for other major forest pests in
Ontario.
Location:
Tembec Limits in Ontario
Key Deliverables:
Protection priority maps (m3/ha losses, given future budworm scenarios)
and spatial databases, which could be used either in planning spray programs
or in optimizing harvest schedules to reduce future losses to budworm.
SBWDSS and associated databases implemented using ArcView 3 or ARC/INFO.
Report presenting strategic planning analyses of the effects of different
possible budworm outbreak and management scenarios on future growing stock
and sustainable harvest levels. Forecasts of consequences of not spraying
budworm and of alternative spray program sizes, in terms of sustainable
harvest levels and forest structure. Recommendations regarding optimum
tactics and strategies for budworm protection.
Expected Benefits:
The application of a DSS model will allow Tembec to quantify a budworm
loss value that can be used to optimize harvest schedules to reduce aggregate
future losses.
Sources of Funding:
Biodiversity and Forest Health Network, Tembec, Inc., Ontario's Living
Legacy Trust (OLLT).
Other Collaborators:
T. Scarr, V. Wearn, Tembec, Ontario's Living Legacy Trust
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
OMNR is supplying forest health data as it relates to spruce budworm outbreaks.
Tembec is supplying forest inventory data for its operating areas, financial,
administration
Links to Internet Sites:
http://www.forestresearch.ca/partnership_projects/operational_implementation/160-201.htm
