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Real World Tree Breeding: Growth and Yield Projections are Met or Exceeded in Douglas Fir
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This fibre fact provides a validation of tree breeding under 'real world' conditions in confirming stand volume projections from growth and yield models.
Rearing, Identification, and Biology of Parasitoids and Predators Associated with Pissodes Weevils in Canada
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Methods for collecting and rearing parasitoids of larvae and pupae of Pissodes species are discussed. Illustrated keys are provided for the identification of 31 species of Diptera and Hymenoptera...
Reclamation Prescriptions—Does One Size Fit All?
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This note explores lesson from EMEND that can inform reclamation approaches that embrace variation, as opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach.
Recommended Procedures for Rooting Ground Hemlock (Taxus Canadensis) Cuttings
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Methods for greenhouse propagation of rooted cuttings of Canada yew ( Taxus canadensis) are described. Specific details on the collection and handling of cuttings, greenhouse culture, and post-rooting...
Reducing Stem Rot in Living Black Spruce in Ontario
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This technical note provides forest managers with some knowledge of the characteristics of stem rot in black spruce and how its occurrence is related to various factors.
Regeneration Behaviour of Competing Plants After Clear-Cutting
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Secondary succession, which follows forest harvesting, begins with the growth of herbs, shrubs, and trees and eventually leads to a mature forest. However, young, commercially important trees are...
Regression Models Describe and Predict Benefits of Vegetation Management for Black Spruce
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To better quantify the long-term growth response of black spruce to weed control, individual outplants were sampled up to 11 years after planting as part of a vegetation management and stock...
Remote Sensing of Natural Disturbance Caused by Insect Defoliation and Dieback
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The objective of this report is to review the requirements for disturbance information, the manifestation of damage patterns that may be encountered, and to provide an overview of remote sensing...
Resource Availability and Physiological Response of Black Spruce to Scarification in Two Climatic Regions of Québec (Canada)
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Scarification is a mechanical site preparation technique designed to create microsites that will favor the growth of planted tree seedlings after clearcutting. However, the positive growth response of...
Restoration and Reclamation of Boreal Ecosystems: Attaining Sustainable Development
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This book is composed of chapters that reveal our current state of knowledge on reclamation and restoration of these boreal ecosystems. The boreal forest, or taiga, is a mosaic of lakes, peatlands...
Review and Synthesis of Regeneration Methods in Beetle-Killed Stands Following Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Attack: A Literature Review
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The current infestation of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is having a significant effect on the lodgepole pine forests of Interior British Columbia. By 2004, 7 million hectares had...
Review of Best Practices for Tree Planting on Marginal Agriculture Lands in Ontario
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Afforestation, the planting of trees on abandoned or under-utilized agricultural lands, has occurred to varying degrees in Ontario since the turn of the 20th century. Knowledge of plantation...
Revisiting the Functional Zoning Concept under Climate Change to Expand the Portfolio of Adaptation Options
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Climate change is threatening our ability to manage forest ecosystems sustainably. Despite strong consensus on the need for a broad portfolio of options to face this challenge, diversified management...
Rhizina Root Rot of Conifers
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Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
Rocky Mountain Intermontane Subboreal Forest
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The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
Rocky Mountain Subalpine – High Montane Forest
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The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
Sampling Techniques to Detect Canopy Infestations of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
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Hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae Annand) has recently invaded Canada and is threatening the survival of eastern hemlock. An important part of the management of the hemlock woolly adelgid is...
Save Our Species: A Blueprint for Restoring Butternut (Juglans cinerea) across Eastern North America
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Butternut is a relatively uncommon hardwood tree native to eastern North America. The species’ abundance has declined over the past 50 years, primarily because of an invasive pathogen ( Ophiognomonia...