Land Management Search Results
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Rob Johns
Véronique Martel
The spruce budworm is a native forest insect that inhabits the spruce-fir forests of northeastern North America. Outbreaks of this insect occur every 30 to 40 years. During this cycle, populations...
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Kim Chapman
Rob Fleming
Nelson Thiffault
Daniel Gouge
Gordon Kayahara
Dave Morris
Wayne Bell
We present an ecological framework for classifying sites to support vegetation management decisions in the boreal and northern temperate forests of northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec. This...
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With climate change, Canada’s forests will be exposed to rapid changes in their environment, including variations in temperature and precipitation. Tree species will have to migrate to find the...
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Brenda Parlee
John Sandlos
David Natcher
Resource Date:
February
2018
The paper describes a “tragedy of open access” occurring in Canada’s north as governments open up new areas of sensitive barren-ground caribou habitat to mineral resource development. A growing body of science and traditional knowledge research points to the adverse impacts of resource development; however, management efforts have been almost exclusively focused on controlling the subsistence harvest of northern Indigenous peoples.
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Amy Nixon
Christopher Shank
Dan Farr
The Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation project has produced a comprehensive, evidence-based, and original examination of the effects of climate change on Alberta’s biodiversity
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A. Prasad
J. H. Pedlar
M. Peters
S. Matthews
L. Iverson
D. W. McKenney
B. Adams
This book chapter addresses how future forests will be shaped, in large part, by tree responses to climate change via mortality, migration, and adaptation. The authors first demonstrate the strong...
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Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement commits signatories to promote recovery of boreal caribou through regional caribou action planning across Canada. The following primer describes how the national...
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Laura Finnegan
Jennifer Hird
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
The paper by the fRI Research Caribou Program investigates seismic lines for their abundance of forage plants, which could attract predators of caribou such as bears as well as alternate prey for...
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In Canada, the young forests created by harvesting have shifted the distribution and abundance of deer, elk, and moose. A consequence is unsustainable caribou predation by shared predators like bears...
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Tracy McKay
Laura Finnegan
Forest harvesting causes habitat loss and alteration and can change predator– prey dynamics. In Canada, forest harvesting has shifted the distribution and abundance of ungulates (deer, elk and moose)...
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Laura Finnegan
Rebecca Viejou
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Gordon Stenhouse
Impact of disturbance on the daily movement of two large threatened mammals, and examined the nuances of movement response to type and regeneration of disturbance across seasons.
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Sabrina Plante
Christian Dussault
Julien Richard
Mathieu Garel
Steeve Côté
Abstract Human disturbances are rapidly increasing in northern and Arctic regions, raising concerns about the recovery and persistence of declining caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) populations. Yet, the...
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A video presenting an update on the Silvics of North America Initiative. The Silvics of North America describes the silvicultural characteristics of hundreds of conifers and hardwoods in the US...
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Kathryn Fisher
Mouloud Amazouz
A video that highlights NRCan's progress towards digitalization of the forestry sector. Video includes on-the-ground examples from the Canadian perspective. A PDF of the PowerPoint presentation can be...
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Resource Date:
February
2022
This online article gives a relatively brief overview of the status of wild caribou and reindeer around the circumpolar world.
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Rangifer tarandus (wild reindeer or caribou) is an abundant and widely distributed member of the deer family across the circum-arctic tundra and boreal forests. Rangifer through its sheer numbers has...
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Arnaud Benoit-Pepin
Mariano Feldman
Louis Imbeau
Osvaldo Valeria
In managed boreal forests, logging operations maintain high levels of anthropogenic disturbance in the ecosystem. The establishment of permanent anthropogenic linear features such as logging roads in...
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Controlling insect pests in forests is a constant challenge. Aside from prevention and monitoring, there are very few means available to achieve this goal. With the aim of heading off trouble and...
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Jennifer Hird
Alessandro Montaghi
Gregory McDermid
Jahan Kariyeva
Brian Moorman
Scott Nielsen
Anne McIntosh
Good statistical agreement between key structural vegetation parameters, such as mean and maximum vegetation height, with PPC metrics successfully predicting most height and tree-diameter metrics.
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The present note is a brief outline of the contents of a user's compendium and guide to stem decay in living trees in Ontario's forests.