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Climate Change Alone Cannot Explain Boreal Caribou Range Recession in Quebec Since 1850
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Abstract The contraction of species range is one of the most significant symptoms of biodiversity loss worldwide. While anthropogenic activities and habitat alteration are major threats for several...
Climate Change and Canada's Forests: From Impacts to Adaptation
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Climate change is already affecting Canada’s forests. Current visible effects include changes in the frequency and severity of disturbances (such as fires, drought, severe storms, and damaging insect...
Climate Change and the Bioeconomy: Finding Silviculture Solutions for 21st Century Forests
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This fibre fact provides an overview of how salvage logging can provide an opportuntiy for the forest industry to supply Canada's bioeconomy with wood fibre as well as regenerate a forest.
Climate Change: Response of Black Spruce
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Climate change is an undeniable reality, and the boreal forest's response to accelerated global warming will surely have a major impact on forest ecosystems. The effect that higher concentrations of...
Clonal Variation in Coppiced and Uncoppiced Growth, Root-Sprout Stem Formation, and Biomass Partitioning in Salix interior on Two Highly Disturbed Site Types
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Salix interior Rowlee (INT) is a wide-ranging North American willow from the small taxonomic group Salix section Longifoliae, notable for its ability to form multi-stemmed vegetative stem colonies...
Cold-Season Freeze Frequency is a Pervasive Driver of Subcontinental Forest Growth
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The reduction of freeze exposure with winter warming has consequences for carbon sequestration by northern forests. Quantifying the impact of these changes on tree growth is, however, challenging...
Common Pests of Arbutus in British Columbia
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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...
Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia
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This is the third version of a Canadian Forest Service tree disease identification guide for British Columbia. The first, "Some common tree diseases of British Columbia", by J.E. Bier, was published...
Complementary Roles of Two Classes of Defense Chemicals in White Spruce Against Spruce Budworm
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This fact sheet presents the results of a study on the influence of genetic selection on variation in wood density of white spruce. Conducted in Quebec, based on two genetic tests initiated in 1999...
Condition, Growth, and Projected Yield of Lodgepole Pine and Interior Spruce 20 Years After Rehabilitation of an Understocked Site in North-Central British Columbia: The Stony Lake Trial
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The Stony Lake trial was established in 1987 to benchmark growth performance of interior spruce ( Picea glauca [Moench] Voss x engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Dougl...
Conifer Defoliators of British Columbia
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Magnificent coniferous forests cloak all but the highest peaks and most arid interior valleys of British Columbia. Conifers are dominant in each of the province's varied forest ecosystems, from the...
Conservation Guidelines for Ecologically Sensitive Forested Sites on Private Woodlots within the Fundy Model Forest
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This manual provides management guidelines aimed at protecting biodiversity in ecologically sensitive sites found on private woodlots within the 420 000-ha Fundy Model Forest of southeastern New...
Conserving Canada’s Ash Resource / La conservation des frênes du Canada
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The National Tree Seed Centre (NTSC) is safeguarding Canada’s forest genetic resources. In response to the threat posed by the emerald ash borer ( Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire), the NTSC is storing...
Converting Aspen Stands to White Spruce-Aspen Mixedwoods by Planting and Seeding, Manitoba
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Between 1960 and 1966, 21 planting and 14 seeding trials were established to convert aspen stands to spruce-aspen mixedwoods in three Manitoba Forest Management Sections. Scalped strips, varying in...
Could Restoration of a Landscape to a Pre‐European Historical Vegetation Condition Reduce Burn Probability?
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Montane regions throughout western North America have experienced closures of forest cover and increases of forest encroachment into grasslands due to climate change and fire suppression. These...
Culture intensive en courte rotation
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Providing the knowledge needed to mitigate climate change effects and improve forest management, this long-term research by the CWFC could expand the circular bio-economy through high-yield crops that...
Decay of Living Western Redcedar: A Literature Review
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An overview of literature relevant to decay in living western redcedar is provided. Despite the species’ reputation for decay resistant heartwood, living western redcedar trees frequently have...
Dendroecology and Genomics in Support of Forest Carbon Capture
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Globally, forests play a significant natural role, as they absorb and sequestrate carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This carbon sequestration mitigates the phenomenon commonly...
Detection of an Invisible Foe: Annosus Root and Butt Rot
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Annosus root and butt rot was first reported in Quebec in 1989. The causal fungus enters a pine stand by colonizing the surface of freshly cut stumps. The disease spreads through contact between the...