PFRA Shelterbelt Centre Publications

• Agroforestry
• Applied Research
• Climate change
• Shelterbelts
• Growth and maintenance of trees/shelterbelts
• Disease and pests
• Trees
• Wildlife
• Miscellaneous

Agroforestry

• Forest belts
• Growing hybrid poplars as a crop
• Considerations for hybrid poplar production

Climate change

• Agriculture as a solution to pollution
• Agroforestry - a sink for carbon
• Cleaning the planet's air is as simple as planting a tree
• Energy savings and farmyard shelterbelts
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about climate change?
• Planting for the future
• Snow control benefits of shelterbelts
• Shelterbelts increase crop yields
• Shelterbelts - a tool for climate change
• Tree planting benefits wildlife and the environment

Shelterbelts

Dugout shelterbelts

• Shelterbelts for dugouts: describes designing shelterbelt plantings to increase water quantity and quality for household, livestock and wildlife. Recommendations are provided for species selection, plant spacing and maintenance.

Farm shelterbelts

• Spacing recommendations for farmstead shelterbelts
• Planning farm shelterbelts: describes the principles of designing farm shelterbelts

Field shelterbelts

• Field Shelterbelt Facts
• Design field shelterbelts to prevent wind erosion
• Planning field shelterbelts: describes the principles of designing farm shelterbelts.

Benefits of shelterbelts

• Basic shelterbelt establishment guidelines for Prairie livestock facilities
• The effects of shelterbelts on cropping and tillage practices
• Livestock benefit from shelterbelts
• Shelterbelts helps cut heating costs
• Shelterbelts increase crop yields
• Shelter your livestock with trees
• Snow control with shelterbelts
• WBECON - Windbreak economics/The economics of shelterbelts : a computer program that assists producers and extension personnel in assessing the economic benefits of establishing field shelterbelts. This program calculates the cash benefits to producers through discounting and calculating present values

Growth and maintenance of trees/shelterbelts

• A guide to planting and care of trees for public property plantings
• Drip irrigation for farmstead shelterbelts
• Fertilizing trees
• Field shelterbelt pruning
• Growing poplar and willow from hardwood cuttings
• Growing trees and shrubs from seeds
• Harvesting procedures for shrubs and tree seeds
• Herbicides for shelterbelt weed control
• Maintenance pruning - deciduous trees
• Mulches for tree planting
• Planting and care of shelterbelts
• Planting and care of evergreens
• Propagation by softwood cuttings
• Pruning trees and shrubs
• Repair of snow and ice damage to trees
• Root pruning of Siberian elms

Diseases and Pests

• Black Knot of plum and cherry
• Cankers on Poplars
• Control of Borers in planted trees in the Prairie Provinces
• Control of boxelder twig borer
• Iron chlorosis of trees and shrubs
• Pest Management - Gophers
• Plum pockets
• Silver leaf disease of trees and shrubs
• Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Pest leaflets

Trees

• Considerations for hybrid poplar production
• Description of poplar clones
• Description of three willow clones
• Fruit-bearing shrubs for multi-use shelterbelts & orchards: describes shrubs which are adapted to the prairie climate. Many of the species are suitable for fruit production and multi-use shelterbelts. It describes 8 berry producing shrub species and general information on fruit production on the prairies.
• Growing hybrid poplars as a crop
• Improvement of conservation trees and shrubs: a guide to the status of improvement and development of woody plants at the Shelterbelt Centre. A brief description of each species is included. The plants listed are being developed specifically for conservation purposes.
• Tree and shrub material for urban centres
• Sea-Buckthorn, a promising multi-purpose crop for Saskatchewan
• Shrubs in landscape design
• Siberian larch
• Tree and shrubs for wildlife habitat plantings
• Trees and shrubs for Prairie Shelterbelts: a pictorial guide to shelterbelt species suitable for Canadian prairies. Species are described in regard to growth characteristics, basic tree forms and limitations.

Wildlife

• Managing Nuisance Animals and Associated Damage Around the Home
• Designing tree plantings for wildlife ( includes information about species and spacing recommendations)
• Protecting trees from animal damage
• Tree and shrubs for wildlife habitat plantings: outlines a variety of methods for improving wildlife habitat with trees and shrubs.
• Wildlife habitat plantings on pivot corner

Applied Research

• Research review 1999
• Woody Plant Improvement
• Annual carbon accumulations in agroforestry plantations
• Biomass production and carbon fixation by prairie shelterbelts

Miscellaneous

• Christmas tree production
• Ginseng
• Maple Syrup production on the prairies.
• Mushrooms
• U-pick apple orchard
• U-pick berry orchard

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