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Rate of Deterioration, Degrade and Fall of Trees Killed by Mountain Pine Beetle: A Synthesis of the Literature and Experiential Knowledge
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This report is the first stage of a larger study to determine how factors that determine wood quality and quantity change with time-since-death, including the rate of tree fall. The type of wood...
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.
Realizing the Full Growth Potential of a Forest: TreeCG, a Forest Compensatory Growth Model. Fibre Facts 28
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This fibre fact provides an overview of what forest compensatory growth is and how the TreeCG model can be used to detect and plan for compensatory growth within a forest stand.
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 Activities of Alberta Environment
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Ineffective surface reclamation legislation for many years left thousands of hectares of Alberta landscape scarred and abandoned after being disturbed by man's activities. In an effort to reclaim some...
Reclamation Activities of the Alberta Forest Service
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Reclamation activities of the Alberta Forest Service fall into three general areas. It is involved in the process of application, approval, and inspection of all operations relating to resource...
Reclamation and Woody Biomass Production on Disturbed Sites with Willow (Salix interior)
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This study describes biomass production, colony formation, and clonal spread via root stems of a wide-ranging North American willow species, Salix interior (INT), one of the few willows that can...
Reclamation Certification and Criteria
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Since we started issuing Development and Reclamation Approvals for coal mines in 1974 we have issued Reclamation Certificates to Forestburg Collieries Limited at the Diplomat Mine, TransAlta Utilities...
Reclamation Certification Criteria – Coal Mining Disturbances: An Overview of Requirements and Standards
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The mines in the Edson Area are relatively young in terms of mining in the area and so the actual results of reclamation are just starting to show. Cardinal River Coals is the oldest, having commenced...
Reclamation for Afforestation by Suitable Native and Introduced Tree and Shrub Species
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In 1976 methods and materials were used in the search for afforestation practices that will assist in the establishment of a self sustaining vegetation cover compatible with land use objectives
Reclamation of an Industrial Sewage Lagoon
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Chemical characteristics of sludge, and precautions required to protect workers, were considered major obstacles to success. However, the physical soil characteristics created by the sludge were worse
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.
Reclamation Research and the Regulatory Process
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Benefits of research cooperation include reduced costs, shared expertise, ease of site access and a commitment by both parties to implementation of the results.
Reclamation to Wildlife Habitat - Goals and Delivery
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When I was asked to prepare a presentation on "emerging issues in wildlife habitat reclamation" it quickly occurred to me that the product would be a list of technical issues related to the generation...
Reclamation with Native Grasses in Alberta: Field Trial Results
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Species performances were generally poor in the species adaptability trials at Cadomin. Contrastingly, most species performed reasonably well in the species adaptability trial at Mildred Lake
Recommended Land Use Guidelines for Protection of Selected Wildlife Species and Habitat within Grassland and Parkland Natural Regions of Alberta
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These guidelines are designed to help land users minimize, or avoid, potential adverse effects on selected wildlife and wildlife resources when conducting activities on public and private lands within...
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...