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Canadian Forest Service - National Site

Research

Working Together Towards Solutions: Get Involved, Get Results Carbon Budget, a Model

This study could result in forest management strategies to improve carbon retention in Canada's forests.

Global Climate Warming

Scientists worldwide are confident that global warming is occurring and that at least some of it is due to human activity. The predicted levels and rates of climate change could have serious ecological and socioeconomic implications for Canadian forests. Furthering our knowledge of those impacts will ensure that we are better able to develop strategies for mitigating or adapting to the changing conditions.

The Program

The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has been studying carbon cycle dynamics of the boreal forest and the implications of climate change for forest resource management since 1989. Under the ENFOR (ENergy from the FORest) program, CFS researcher have led the development of the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector, making Canada a leader worldwide in assessing forest carbon budgets on a national scale.

Now the CFS is turning its attention to applying the model on provincial and even local scales to provide policy makers with the information they need to make wise forest management planning decisions that will help, not harm future forests and the environment in which they grow.

The influence of management practices such as harvest schedules, regeneration and afforestation, and forest protection will be examined by applying the national corbon budget model to the forest management area of Weldwood of Canada's Hinton Division, which is a major sponsor of the Foothills Model Forest in west-central Alberta.

In addition, the research team is developing data bases and models that will distinguish between the atmospheric carbon contributions of managed versus unmanaged forest lands. These tools will help to determine the influence of human activities, both direct (through resource management) and indirect (as a result of climate change) on the global environment.

CFS S&T Network Partners:

  • B.C. Ministry of Forests
  • Canadian Pulp and Paper Association
  • Foothills Model Forest
  • Parks Canada
  • University of Alberta
  • Weldwood of Canada (Hinton Division)

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Mike Apps
Research Scientist

Canadian Forest Service
Northern Forestry Centre
5320 - 122 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6H 3S5

Telephone: (403) 435-7305
Fax: (403) 435-7359
email: mike.apps@nrcan.gc.ca

or the CFS centre nearest you.

 

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