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Forest Carbon 101: How Canada Calculates Forest Carbon
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Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
Forest Carbon 101: How Canada Calculates Forest Carbon
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Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
Forest Carbon Accounting: How Does Canada Assess the Contribution of Forests Toward Reducing Emissions?
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Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Each year...
Forest Ecozones Across Canada
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Canada has 362 million hectares of forests that support a wide range of social, cultural, economic and ecological services. Many of these services are monitored by the forest sector, often summarized...
Forest Floor Protection During Drilling Pad Construction and its Benefits for Natural Regeneration of Native Boreal Forest Vegetation
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I I tested forest floor protection techniques in the construction and reclamation of temporary drilling pads to restore native boreal canopy and understory cover. By covering and delineating the...
Forest Floor Recovery Index: A Tool to Assess Forest Recovery after Reclamation
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In the oil sands region of Alberta, governments and industry have asked for tools to assess the recovery of forest ecosystems after resource extraction and land reclamation. The forest floors, which...
Forest Floor Recovery Index: Boreal Mixedwood Field Guide
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The Forest Floor Recovery Index (FFRI) aims to assess ecosystem recovery using changes in forest floor properties during stand development following reclamation. Modeled predictions from the Carbon...
Forest Floor Recovery Index: Boreal Mixedwoood Field Guide
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The Forest Floor Recovery Index (FFRI) aims to assess ecosystem recovery using changes in forest floor properties during stand development following reclamation. Modeled predictions from the Carbon...
Forest Floor Recovery Index: Central Mixedwood Subregion, 2nd Edition
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The Forest Floor Recovery Index (FFRI) aims to assess ecosystem recovery using changes in forest floor properties during stand development following reclamation. Modeled predictions from the Carbon...
Forest Health in Canada. Atlantic Maritime Ecozone 2003
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Highlights Invasive alien insect and disease species are of increasing concern to the health and economic viability of the forest ecosystems within the ecozone. Brown spruce longhorn beetle, an alien...
Forest Health in Canada. Montane Cordillera Ecozone 2003
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Highlights In 2003, mountain pine beetle infested an area of over 4 million ha within British Columbia. Almost all of this infestation occurred within the pine forests of the Montane Cordillera...
Forest Health Monitoring in West-Central Canada in 1996
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Results of forest health monitoring activities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories are summarized for 1996. These results are based on assessments made on 17 permanent...
Forest Landscape Restoration Legislation and Policy: A Canadian Perspective
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Restoring degraded ecosystems is an urgent policy priority to regain ecological integrity, advance sustainable land use management, and mitigate climate change. This study examined current legislation...
Forest Management Guide for Boreal Landscapes
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The objective of the Landscape Guide is to direct forest management activities to maintain or enhance natural landscape structure, composition and patterns that provide for the long term health of...
Forest Regeneration in the ESSF Zone of North-Central British Columbia
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The purpose of this report is to provide practising silviculturists in north-central British Columbia with critical knowledge required to improve regeneration success rates in subalpine forests. High...
Forest Renewal Assessment Manual
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Prompt renewal of harvested forest lands is an integral component of forest management. Forest renewal assessments are essential for measuring forest renewal success and developing sound forest...
Forest Vegetation Management: Key Functions, Alternatives to Chemical Herbicides and Challenges
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This report is adapted from a brief that was delivered in May, 2021 to the Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship, an all-party committee of the New Brunswick Legislature...