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2. L'INDUSTRIE DES PRODUITS FORESTIERS AU QUÉBEC : LA CRISE D'UN MODÈLE SOCIO-PRODUCTIF.
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BARRÉ, Philippe and RIOUX, Claude
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FOREST management ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,FORESTS & forestry & the environment ,FORESTS & forestry ,PAPER industry ,PAPER industry workers ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
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- 2012
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3. A comparison of several methods for estimating light under a paper birch mixedwood stand
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Letchford, T., Gendron, F., and Comeau, P. G.
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS ,PAPER birch ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management - Abstract
In 1996 we initiated a study to evaluate several techniques for measuring light under broadleaf canopies. Hourly average photosynthetic photon flux density and percent transmittance were measured 1 m above the ground at four points in each of three canopy densities created by a spacing experiment in a 35-year-old paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) dominated stand located near Prince George, B.C. At each point, fisheye photographs were taken and LAI-2000 plant canopy analyzer (LAI-2000), spherical densiometer, and competition index (Lorimer'sindex) measurements were made. Percent transmittance measurements onan overcast day (1-h average), transmittance measured over periods of 3 h or longer on a clear day, LAI-2000 diffuse noninterceptance measurements, and gap light index determined from fisheye photographs were strongly correlated with growing season percent transmittance (r
2 >= 0.96) as was competition index (r2 = 0.928). Concave spherical densiometer measurements and midday percent transmittance measurements on clear days were also well correlated with measured percent transmittance (r2 >= 0.89). Estimates of understory light by the LITE model were strongly correlated with growing season percent transmittance. Correlations improved with increasing length of the period simulated (r2 = 0.755 for a point measurement on a clear day; r2 = 0.936 for an entire sunny day;and, r2 = 0.953 for the entire growing season). However, this version of the model underestimated percent transmittance in these spaced birch stands by 34-90%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 1998
4. A review of Canadian wood conversion technologies for the production of fuels and chemicals.
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Sreekumar, Arun, Mohan, Omex, Kurian, Vinoj, Mvolo, Cyriac, and Kumar, Amit
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FORESTS & forestry ,WOOD products manufacturing ,BIOMASS conversion ,WOOD products ,FOREST management - Abstract
Canada has 347 million ha of forest cover, contributing to the potential large availability of wood‐based resources. Although Canada's forest sector contributed $23.7 billion to the national nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, the GDP contribution of the wood product manufacturing subsector shrank by 6%. To reposition the Canadian forest industry, new forest management practices and wood‐based conversion technologies should be applied. In this context, the use of woody biomass in biorefineries to produce clean energy, fuels, and chemicals is becoming increasingly significant. There is a need to understand the current status and challenges of the wood‐based biomass conversion technologies that have been and are being developed in Canada. This information will help decision‐makers in formulating and implementing forest sector‐related policies for a sustainable bioeconomy in Canada. This study is focused on a review of Canadian woody biomass conversion technologies. Our critical review identified considerable potential biomass conversion technologies specialized for woody feedstock, all in the Canadian setting. We focused on the prospects of revitalizing Canada's pulp and paper industry through the integration of pre‐treatment processes and biochemical technologies. The thermochemical conversion pathway was identified as the dominant route for woody feedstock valorization. The review also identified pathways with the potential to diversify the existing product mix that generate products from wood streams, such as chemicals and biomaterials. Most of the biochemical and thermochemical research done in institutional and multi‐institutional research collaborations from laboratory scale to industrial scale will boost the chances of the commercialization of a wood‐based biorefinery in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Scientific considerations and challenges for addressing cumulative effects in forest landscapes in Canada.
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Venier, L.A., Walton, R., and Brandt, J.P.
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ECOLOGICAL disturbances ,NATURAL resources ,DATA integration ,LANDSCAPES ,ACQUISITION of data ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management - Abstract
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- 2021
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6. Indigenous experiences with public advisory committees in Canadian forest management1.
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Nenko, Alemu, Parkins, John R., and Reed, Maureen G.
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FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,NATURAL resources management ,ROYAL forests ,DECISION making - Abstract
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- 2019
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7. Competitive forests -- tenure revisited.
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Rotherham, T. and Armson, K.
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FOREST management ,FORESTRY & climate ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2018
8. Impacts and prognosis of natural resource development on aquatic biodiversity in Canada's boreal zone1.
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Kreutzweiser, David, Beall, Frederick, Webster, Kara, Thompson, Dean, and Creed, Irena
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CONSERVATION of natural resources ,AQUATIC biodiversity ,TAIGAS ,FORESTS & forestry ,WATERSHEDS ,FOREST management - Abstract
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- 2013
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9. Participatory decision support for sustainable forest management: a framework for planning with local communities at the landscape level in Canada.
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Sheppard, Stephen R. J.
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SUSTAINABLE forestry ,FOREST management ,DECISION making ,SOCIAL support ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2005
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10. Assessing future climate trends and implications for managed forests across Canadian ecozones.
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Wotherspoon, A.R., Achim, A., and Coops, N.C.
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ECOLOGICAL zones ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST dynamics ,TREE growth ,BIOMES ,COASTAL forests ,LANDSLIDES - Abstract
Climate change interacts with ecological processes leading to changes in tree and forest growth rate, biome shifts and species composition, all of which are influenced by disturbances. This study explores future overarching climate trends of eight of Canada's ecozones containing managed forests. For the 2071 to 2100 period, climate projections indicate a warming trend of up to an additional 5.5 °C and an overall increase in annual precipitation. Future trends suggest marked contrast between coastal and interior forests and polarization between western and eastern forests. Warmer temperatures, accumulating degree-days above 5 °C and frost-free days suggest longer and drier growing seasons and greater risk of drought particularly in moisture-limited areas such as montane cordillera, taiga shield and boreal shield ecozones. Warmer temperatures and rising precipitation combined with less snow suggest shorter and wetter future winters. This indicates greater risk of rain-on-snow and freeze-thaw events, flooding and landslides particularly in coastal ecozones. We discuss how these projections are likely to result in shifts in dominant species and abundance, which when coupled with the cumulative effects of future disturbances, is likely to alter future forest dynamics and impact harvestable wood volumes for Canada's forestry industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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11. Desperately Seeking Certified.
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Wickham, Trevor
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FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,CERTIFICATION - Abstract
Focuses on forest certification in Canada. Use of the market-based incentive in the management of forests; List of certification systems in Canada; Changes in the forest certification sector.
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- 2004
12. MULTILEVEL DETERMINANTS AND PROCESSES OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COASTAL FOREST INDUSTRY.
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ZIETSMA, CHARLENE
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ORGANIZATIONAL change ,COASTAL forests ,FORESTS & forestry ,ORGANIZATION ,FOREST management ,CLEARCUTTING ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. - Abstract
This article discusses the multilevel determinants and processes of institutional change in the British Columbia coastal forest industry. Institutional change is attracting increasing attention among organizational scholars. Individual organizations change first, often stimulated by changes in the broader environment. Innovations are later mimetically adopted by other organizations under certain conditions. Within an organization, the need for change is noticed and championed by an individual or team, and the adoption of change requires adjustments in the interpretations of other organization members. For years in British Columbia, environmentalists and forest companies engaged in a War of the Woods. Environmentalists protested clearcutting (a logging practice in which all of the trees in an area are cut), by blockading roads and chaining themselves to logging equipment. Clearcutting was institutionalized by practice, by legislation, and normatively. Forest companies staunchly defended clearcutting as tree farming, the safest way to log, and the only way they could stay in business. In 1998, forest company MacMillan Bloedel (MB) shocked its industry and stakeholders, and earned environmentalists' accolades, when it announced it would completely replace clearcutting with variable retention logging. MB subsequently pressured other firms to adopt variable retention and negotiate with environmentalists. Several of the largest companies did, and the institutional environment changed radically.
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- 2003
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13. Assisted migration: Introduction to a multifaceted concept.
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Ste-Marie, Catherine, Nelson, Elizabeth A., Dabros, Anna, and Bonneau, Marie-Eve
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ASSISTED migration (Plant colonization) ,FORESTS & forestry ,CLIMATE change ,DEBATE - Abstract
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- 2011
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14. Evaluating the social capital accrued in large research networks: The case of the Sustainable Forest Management Network (1995-2009).
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Klenk, Nicole L., Hickey, Gordon M., and MacLellan, James Ian
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SOCIAL capital ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,SOCIAL networks ,SUSTAINABLE forestry ,SUSTAINABILITY ,ACADEMIC-industrial collaboration - Abstract
This paper examines the social capital that evolved in the Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN), one of the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence. Our longitudinal study shows a sevenfold increase in the total number of researchers and a high density of relationships among (researchers from) provinces across the country. The results of a social network analysis revealed that 52.6 percent of the network researchers maintained the same number of collaborators while 46.7 percent increased their number of collaborators enormously: the maximum increase in number of collaborators being 6900 percent and the minimum 6 percent. A bibliometric analysis suggested that the number of publications was strongly correlated to measures of social capital. From a science and innovation policy perspective, the finding that more than half of the researchers in the SFMN did not increase their personal networks of collaborators raises important questions. A theoretical model is proposed to examine whether funding agencies should focus on fostering various network structures and evolutions or rely on competition in the distribution of research funds through networks. The proposed model is designed to measure the impact of various network structures on the development of social capital and research output. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
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15. Integrating advanced technologies for optimization of aerial herbicide applications.
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Thompson, D., Chartrand, D., Staznik, B., Leach, J., and Hodgins, P.
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HERBICIDE application ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,GEOGRAPHIC information systems ,FOREST plant control ,WEED control - Abstract
Aerial application of herbicides continues to be a dominant method of vegetation control in Canadian forest management. In this paper, we describe a suite of relatively modern technologies and emphasize their potential for integrated use in optimization of aerial herbicide treatments. The potential is illustrated using several case studies involving fixed-wing applications of glyphosate-based herbicide in the boreal forest region of Ontario, Canada. Results indicate that integration of geographic information systems, differential global positioning, electronic-guidance, on-site meteorological monitoring and remote sensing can be used to effectively plan, enhance application control and provide detailed post-treatment assessment and archival data for herbicide spray programs. SprayAdvisor, a GIS-based decision support system with the capacity to directly integrate all of these elements is briefly described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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16. Potential changes in monthly fire risk in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under future climate change.
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Le Goff, Héloïse, Flannigan, Mike D., and Bergeron, Yves
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TAIGAS ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST fires ,WILDFIRES ,CLIMATE change ,FIRE weather ,SUSTAINABLE development ,FOREST management - Abstract
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- 2009
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17. The Influence of Context on Deliberation and Cooperation in Community-Based Forest Management in Ontario, Canada.
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Robson, Mark and Kant, Shashi
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FOREST management ,DELIBERATION ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
The development of cooperation depends on the nature of deliberations among and between local stakeholders and the state as well as the context of deliberations, especially whether larger scale governance helps, hinders or overrides deliberative processes. However, the context of deliberations has not been a focus of past research on deliberation. The paper identifies the key context criteria that influenced deliberation and the development of cooperation in a comparative case study of two forest advisory committees in Ontario, Canada. The study uses cognitive mapping and network analysis techniques to identify key context criteria and concludes with five inferences regarding the influence of context on deliberation and cooperation that have implications for deliberation and decentralization theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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18. Climate change adaptation and regional forest planning in southern Yukon, Canada.
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Ogden, A. E. and Innes, J. L.
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CLIMATE change ,FOREST management ,FOREST policy ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
Recent interest in sustainable forest management planning in the Yukon has coincided with growing public awareness of climate change, providing an opportunity to explore how forestry plans are incorporating climate change. In this paper, the Strategic Forest Management Plans for the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Traditional Territory (CATT) and the Teslin Tlingit Traditional Territory (TTTT) are examined for evidence of adaptation to climate change. For each plan, management policies and practices that are also recognized as ways to adapt to climate change are identified to provide information on the incremental costs and benefits of additional adaptation efforts. A typology for classifying sustainable forest management plans according to how they address climate change is proposed and applied to the CATT and TTTT plans. This typology, which may be useful to any future retrospective assessments on how successful these or other sustainable forest management plans have been in addressing and managing the risks posed by climate change, consists of a matrix that categorizes plans into one of four types; (1) proactive-direct, (2) proactive-indirect, (3) reactive-direct, and (4) reactive-indirect. Neither of the plans available for the southern Yukon explicitly identifies climate change vulnerabilities and actions that will be taken to reduce those vulnerabilities and manage risks. However, both plans have incorporated some examples of 'best management practices' for sustainable forest management that are also consistent with appropriate climate adaptation responses. Even in a jurisdiction facing rapid ecological changes driven by climate change, where there is a relatively high level of awareness of climate change and its implications, forestry planning processes have yet to grapple directly with the risks that climate change may pose to the ability of forest managers to achieve the stated goals and objectives of sustainable forest management plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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19. First Nations, forest lands, and “aboriginal forestry” in Canada: from exclusion to comanagement and beyond.
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Wyatt, Stephen
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TREES ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,AGRICULTURE ,SILVICULTURAL systems ,VEGETATION management - Abstract
The term “aboriginal forestry” is used increasingly to describe the evolving role of First Nations peoples in Canadian forestry over the last 30 years. This paper reviews a diversity of experiences and identifies issues that have important implications for governments, forest planners, and First Nations: a forestry regime that reflects the interests of governments and industry rather than those of First Nations; variable implementation of aboriginal rights in forestry practice; benefits and problems of economic partnerships; limitations on consultation, traditional knowledge, and comanagement in forestry; and finally, different forestry paradigms. Among these experiences and issues, we recognise different visions for the participation of First Nations peoples in Canadian forestry. At one end of the spectrum, “forestry excluding First Nations” is no longer accepted. The most common form may be “forestry by First Nations,” representing a role for First Nations within existing forestry regimes. Other options include “forestry for First Nations,” in which forest managers seek to incorporate aboriginal values and knowledge in management activities and “forestry with First Nations,” in which aboriginal peoples are equal partners in forest management. However, aboriginal forestry is better understood as a potential new form of forestry that uses knowledge and techniques drawn from both traditions and conventional forestry and is based on aboriginal rights, values, and institutions. Au Canada, le terme « foresterie autochtone »gagne en popularité pour décrire le rôle grandissant des Premières nations en foresterie au cours des trente dernières années. Cet article passe en revue de nombreuses expériences et identifie des enjeux aux conséquences importantes pour les gouvernements, les gestionnaires forestiers et les Premières nations. Un régime forestier qui reflète les intérêts des gouvernements et des industriels plutôt que ceux des Premières nations, la reconnaissance inégale des droits autochtones dans les pratiques forestières, les bénéfices et les problèmes associés aux partenariats d’affaires, les limites propres à la consultation, la place des savoirs traditionnels et de la cogestion en foresterie et enfin, la variété des paradigmes forestiers composent ces enjeux. Parmi ces expériences et enjeux, nous reconnaissons l’expression de différentes façons de concevoir la participation autochtone à la foresterie canadienne. À un bout du spectre, « une foresterie qui exclut les Premières nations »n’est plus une option acceptable. La vision la plus répandue est probablement celle d’« une foresterie par les Premières nations »signifiant que celles-ci ont un rôle à jouer dans les régimes forestiers existants. Une autre conception est celle de « la foresterie pour les Premières nations »lorsque les gestionnaires forestiers tentent d’intégrer des valeurs et des savoirs autochtones à leurs activités d’aménagement. Enfin, les situations où les autochtones sont partenaires à part entière dans l’aménagement de la forêt s’inscrivent sous la rubrique « la foresterie avec les Premières nations ». Cependant, la foresterie autochtone est mieux comprise lorsqu’elle implique la possibilité d’une nouvelle foresterie qui a recours à des savoirs et des techniques inspirés à la fois des traditions et de la foresterie conventionnelle et qui est fondée sur des droits, des valeurs et des institutions autochtones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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20. Mapping stand-level forest biophysical variables for a mixedwood boreal forest using lidar: an examination of scanning density.
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Thomas, V., Treitz, P., McCaughey, J.H., and Morrison, I.
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OPTICAL radar ,FOREST management ,LANDSCAPE protection ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2006
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21. A Result-baed system for regulating refection obligations: Some developments in 2003.
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m Martin, Patrick J, Browne-Clayton, Shane, and Taylor, Greg
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REFORESTATION ,FOREST management ,FOREST conservation ,FOREST policy ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
In a recent paper, we described a multi-block approach to the regulation and management of reforestation (P.J. Martin, S. Browne Clayton, and E. McWilliams (2002), "A results-based system for regulating reforestation obligations," Forestry Chronicle 78(4): 492-498). Under the multi-block approach, indicators are devised that portray the degree to which the condition of regeneration on harvested areas is consistent with forest management goals. A population of harvested areas is sampled. The current levels of the indicators are estimated and compared to threshold values. If observed levels exceed threshold levels, the population is considered adequately reforested and all reforestation obligations are met. In this paper, we describe some recent enhancements of this concept and demonstrate how the multi-block approach provides characteristics desirable in a regulatory regime. By shifting the focus of reforestation regulation from the stand level to the level of a population of harvested areas, the multi-block approach provides effective regulation, permits efficient management, and addresses several shortcomings in British Columbia's current reforestation regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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22. Give Trees a chance.
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von Mirbach, Martin and Johnson, Lorne
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FOREST products industry ,FORESTS & forestry ,BIOLOGICAL products ,CLIMATE change ,TRANSPORTATION & the environment ,FOREST conservation ,FOREST management - Abstract
The article discusses the important factors which can possibly affect the forestry industry in Canada. It states that the industry has been threatened to collapse due to various reasons. It cites the biological products, climate change and transportation costs as some of the factors. It mentions that the growth of carbon emission in the environment has increased the severity of the fires, drought and damage to the forest ecosystems. It notes that the country's government and its people must act to protect the industry from the full impacts of climate change.
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- 2009
23. Cost of climate change mitigation in Canada's forest sector.
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Lemprière, Tony C., Krcmar, Emina, Rampley, Greg J., Beatch, Alison, Smyth, Carolyn E., Hafer, Mark, and Kurz, Werner A.
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CLIMATE change mitigation ,FORESTS & forestry ,GREENHOUSE gases ,BIOMASS energy ,FOREST management - Abstract
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- 2017
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24. The Forestry Chronicle Report.
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SERIAL publications ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST policy ,FOREST management ,REVENUE - Abstract
The article offers information on the issues of "The Forestry Chronicle" published during the fiscal year 2007-2008. The 100th anniversary of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto was commemorated in the July/August 2007 issue. The September/October 2007 issue included papers on Canadian forest policy, while the January/February 2008 issue had papers addressing "Today's Silveculture: Tomorrow's Forest." Papers on forest management planning at Millar Western were provided in the May/June issue. Revenues generated by the publication were $187,508 during the fiscal year.
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- 2008
25. Long-term compositional changes following partial disturbance revealed by the resurvey of logging concession limits in the northern temperate forest of eastern Canada.
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Danneyrolles, Victor, Arseneault, Dominique, and Bergeron, Yves
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LOGGING ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,TEMPERATE forest ecology ,FOREST succession - Abstract
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- 2016
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26. Irregular forest structures originating after fire: An opportunity to promote alternatives to even‐aged management in boreal forests.
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Martin, Maxence, Leduc, Alain, Fenton, Nicole J., Montoro Girona, Miguel, Bergeron, Yves, and Valeria, Osvaldo
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FOREST management ,TAIGAS ,TREE growth ,K-means clustering ,BLACK spruce ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2022
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27. Potential policy reforms for a "more exotic" Canadian forest sector: Comparing Canada's plantation policies with those in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
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Anderson, Jay A., Luckert, M. K. (Marty), and Campbell, Hawley N.
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FOREST management ,FOREST policy ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST products ,NATIVE plants ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
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- 2015
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28. "Perfect cooperation": Taking the campaign against the spruce budworm in Ontario to new heights, 1927-29.
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Kuhlberg, Mark
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SPRUCE budworm ,CONTROL of plant parasites ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,AERIAL spraying & dusting in forestry ,FOREST policy ,HISTORY - Abstract
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- 2014
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29. Impacts and prognosis of natural resource development on aquatic biodiversity in Canada's boreal zone1.
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Kreutzweiser, David, Beall, Frederick, Webster, Kara, Thompson, Dean, and Creed, Irena
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CONSERVATION of natural resources , *AQUATIC biodiversity , *TAIGAS , *FORESTS & forestry , *WATERSHEDS , *FOREST management - Abstract
Conservation efforts to sustain water resources and aquatic biodiversity in boreal watersheds will require reliable information on the recent status of various indicator species and an improved understanding of the risks to aquatic biodiversity posed by resource development activities. We reviewed the recent state of knowledge on the responses of aquatic biodiversity to forest management, pulp and paper mill effluents, hydroelectric impoundments, mining of minerals and metals, oil sands extractions, and peat mining and offer a prognosis for aquatic biodiversity under each of these environmental stressors. Despite the prevalence of natural resource development in Canada's largest forest ecosystem, there was a limited amount of published literature on the effects of many of the disturbance types on various indicators of aquatic biodiversity, making it difficult to produce a current and reliable status assessment. Across most of the boreal zone, there is a lack of coordinated, consistent data collection for many of the bioindicators and disturbance types discussed in this review. Forecasting the future state of aquatic biodiversity across the boreal zone is challenged by increasing natural resource development and its interactions with other stressors, especially climate change. The cumulative effects of multiple stressors coupled with resource development activities in boreal watersheds remain largely unknown. More importantly, the ecological thresholds for these cumulative effects (that is, the point at which aquatic ecosystems and their biodiversity cannot recover to a desired state within a reasonable time frame) are also unknown and remain gaps in our knowledge. The recent literature identifies a number of risks to aquatic biodiversity at local (tens of square kilometres) to regional (hundreds of square kilometres) scales associated with natural resource development. There are indications that many of these risks can be minimized by 'greener' technologies for resource development and reclamation, practical conservation planning and regulation, and increased stewardship in watershed management, although the effectiveness of many of these measures cannot yet be assessed from the published literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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30. How can the forest sector mitigate climate change in a changing climate? Case studies of boreal and northern temperate forests in eastern Canada.
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Moreau, Lucas, Thiffault, Evelyne, Cyr, Dominic, Boulanger, Yan, and Beauregard, Robert
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CLIMATE change ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,MULTIPURPOSE trees - Abstract
Background Forest based climate mitigation emerged as a key component of the Paris Agreement, and thus requires robust science to reduce uncertainties related to such strategies. The aim of this study was to assess and compare the cumulative effects on carbon dynamics of forest management and climate change on boreal and northern temperate forest sector in eastern Canada for the 2020–2100 period. Methods We used the spatially explicit forest landscape model LANDIS-II and its extension Forest Carbon Succession, in conjunction with the Carbon Budget Model for Harvested Wood Products framework. We simulated the dynamics of forest composition and carbon flows from forest ecosystems to wood products and their substitution effect on markets under increasing climate forcing, according to a tonne-year approach. Simulations were conducted for a series of forest management scenarios based on realistic practices principally by clearcut in the boreal territory and continuous-cover forestry in the northern temperate one. These scenarios included: i) a business-as-usual scenario (BaU), representing the current management strategy, ii) increased harvesting by 6.3% to 13.9%, iii) increased conservation (i.e. reduced harvesting by 11.1% to 49.8%), iiii) and a scenario representing the natural evolution of the forest landscape (i.e. without any management activity). Results Our study revealed that increasing harvesting levels had contrasting effects on the mitigation potential in northern temperate (enhance net sequestration) and boreal forest sector (enhance net emissions) in comparison to the BaU from 2040 onwards, regardless of the future climate. Carbon storage in wood products and the substitution effect were not sufficient to offset carbon emissions from ecosystems. Moreover, climate change had a strong impact on the capacity of both landscapes to act as carbon sinks. Northern temperate landscapes became a net source of carbon over time due to their greater vulnerability to climate change than boreal landscapes. Conclusions Our study highlights the need to consider the initial landscape characteristics in simulations to maximize the mitigation potential of alternative forest management strategies. The optimal management solution can be very different according to the characteristics of forest ecosystems. This opens the possibility of optimizing management for specific forest stands, with the objective of maximizing the mitigation potential of a given landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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31. The implementation of assisted migration in Canadian forests.
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Pedlar, John H., McKenney, Daniel W., Beaulieu, Jean, Colombo, Stephen J., McLachlan, Jason S., and O'Neill, Gregory A.
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ASSISTED migration (Plant colonization) ,PLANT species ,FOREST policy ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2011
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32. Why we disagree about assisted migration: Ethical implications of a key debate regarding the future of Canada's forests.
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Aubin, I., Garbe, C. M., Colombo, S., Drever, C. R., McKenney, D. W., Messier, C., Pedlar, J., Saner, M. A., Venier, L., Wellstead, A. M., Winder, R., Witten, E., and Ste-Marie, C.
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ASSISTED migration (Plant colonization) ,FOREST ecology ,ETHICAL decision making ,CLIMATE change ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2011
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33. Social concerns, risk and the acceptability of forest vegetation management alternatives: Insights for managers.
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Wyatt, Stephen, Rousseau, Marie-Hélène, Nadeau, Solange, Thiffault, Nelson, and Guay, Louis
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FOREST management ,VEGETATION management ,FORESTS & forestry ,RISK management in business - Abstract
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- 2011
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34. Tradeoffs between forestry resource and conservation values under alternate policy regimes: A spatial analysis of the western Canadian boreal plains
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Hauer, Grant, Cumming, Steve, Schmiegelow, Fiona, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Weber, Marian, and Jagodzinski, Robert
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SPATIAL analysis (Statistics) , *ECOLOGICAL economics , *FOREST policy , *ECOSYSTEM services , *FOREST management , *CONSERVATION of natural resources , *FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
An important element of resource management and conservation is an understanding of the tradeoffs between marketed products, such as timber, and measures of environmental quality, such as biodiversity. In this paper, we develop an integrated economic-ecological spatial optimization model that we then apply to evaluate alternate forest policies on a 560,000km2 study region of managed boreal forest in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. The integrated model incorporates dynamic forest sector harvesting, current levels of oil and gas sector development, coarse-filter or habitat-based old forest indicators, a set of empirical forest bird abundance models, and statistical models of the natural and current fire regimes. Using our integrated model, economic tradeoff curves, or production possibility frontiers, are developed to illustrate the cost of achieving coarse-filter targets by a set time (50 years) within a 100-year time horizon. We found levels of ecological indicators and economic returns from the timber industry could both be increased if spatial constraints imposed by the current policy environment were relaxed; other factors being equal, this implies current policy should be revised. We explore the production possibility frontier's relationship to the range of natural variation of old forest habitat, and show how this range can be used to guide choices of preferred locations along the frontier. We also show that coarse-filter constraints on the abundance of certain habitat elements are sufficient to satisfy some fine-filter objectives, expressed as the predicted abundances of various species of songbirds. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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35. Conserving biodiversity in managed forest landscapes: The use of critical thresholds for habitat.
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Rompré, Ghislain, Boucher, Yan, Bélanger, Louis, Côté, Sylvie, and Robinson, W. Douglas
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FOREST biodiversity conservation ,FOREST conservation ,FOREST biodiversity ,FORESTS & forestry ,HABITATS - Abstract
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- 2010
36. Conservation de la biodiversité dans les paysages forestiers aménagés: utilisation des seuils critiques d'habitat.
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Rompré, Ghislain, Boucher, Yan, Bélanger, Louis, Côté, Sylvie, and Robinson, W. Douglas
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FOREST biodiversity ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST conservation - Abstract
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- 2010
37. Accuracy in population estimation: A methodological consideration.
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Li, C., Barclay, H.J., Hans, H., Liu, J., Klos, R., and Carlson, G.
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ESTIMATION theory ,POPULATION ,METHODOLOGY ,APPLIED ecology ,ECOLOGICAL models ,FOREST management ,SUSTAINABLE development ,FORESTS & forestry ,DATA analysis - Abstract
Abstract: Accuracy in population estimation from individual measurement has been traditionally a research focus in both theoretical and applied ecology. In forest sciences, estimation of productivity and value recovery of forest products is essential for decision-making to achieve the goal of sustainable forest management. In this paper, we review the basic structure of data in forest sciences, describe commonly used statistical procedures in obtaining population estimates, and examine the accuracy associated with the forest products value estimation using forest inventory data of Manitoba, Canada. Our results suggested that simplified statistical procedures could bring about a wide range of bias in estimating lumber value recovery at the stand level, and improved understanding of stand structure and its reconstruction through computer simulation could be essential in reducing the bias involved in the estimation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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38. Preindustrial reconstruction of a perhumid midboreal landscape, Anticosti Island, Quebec.
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Barrette, Martin, Bélanger, Louis, and De Grandpré, Louis
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LANDSCAPES ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,DENDROCHRONOLOGY ,BALSAM fir ,BIOTIC communities - Abstract
The knowledge of natural disturbance dynamics and preindustrial landscapes is essential to implement sustainable forest management. Recent findings identify the lack of a forest dynamics model, different from the standard cyclic model of Baskerville (1975. For. Chron. 51: 138–140), for balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) ecosystems of maritime eastern Canada. With the use of historical forest maps and dendrochronology, we reconstructed the range of variability of the preindustrial landscape (6798 km
2 ) and inferred on the natural disturbance dynamics of the balsam fir forest of Anticosti Island. The preindustrial landscape was characterized by a forest matrix of overmature softwood stands with inclusions of younger softwood stands ranging from 0.1 to 7837 ha in size. Widespread stand-initiating events were apparently rare in the preindustrial landscape over the last 160 years. Since our results were not well represented by the cyclic model, which predicts the occurrence of a mosaic of stands in different age classes, we proposed an alternative forest dynamics model for eastern balsam fir ecosystems near the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Forest management inspired by this alternative model may be more appropriate to maintain or restore ecological characteristics of balsam fir forests of this region within their range of natural variability. La connaissance de la dynamique des perturbations naturelles et des paysages préindustriels est essentiel à la réalisation de l’aménagement forestier durable. Des travaux récents ont identifié le besoin d’un nouveau modèle de dynamique forestière, différent du modèle cyclique standard de Baskerville (1975. For. Chron. 51 : 138–140), pour les sapinières (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) maritimes de l’est du Canada. Au moyen de l’analyse de cartes forestières historiques et de la dendrochronologie, nous avons reconstruit les limites de variabilité du paysage préindustriel (6 798 km2 ) et inféré sur la dynamique naturelle des perturbations des sapinières de l’île d’Anticosti. Le paysage préindustriel était caractérisé par une matrice de peuplements résineux surannés avec des inclusions de peuplements résineux plus jeunes, d’une superficie variant de 0,1 à 7 837 ha. L’occurrence de perturbations initiatrices de nouveaux peuplements semble avoir été faible durant les derniers 160 ans. tant donné que les résultats ne sont pas bien représentés par le modèle cyclique, qui prédit l’occurrence d’une mosaïque de peuplements d’âges différents, nous proposons un modèle alternatif de dynamique forestière pour les sapinières de l’est du Canada localisées près du golfe du Saint-Laurent. L’aménagement forestier inspiré par ce modèle alternatif pourrait être plus approprié pour maintenir ou restaurer les caractéristiques écologiques des sapinières de cette région à l’intérieur de leurs limites de variabilité naturelle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2010
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39. Changing our mental model from growing volume to producing value: The case of uneven-aged hardwood management.
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Lussier, Jean-Martin
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FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,SILVICULTURAL systems ,MATHEMATICAL optimization ,PROFITABILITY - Abstract
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- 2009
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40. Toward full, multiple, and optimal wood fibre utilization: A modeling perspective.
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Chao Li
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FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST products ,FOREST management ,VEGETATION management ,INVESTORS - Abstract
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- 2009
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41. CBM-CFS3: A model of carbon-dynamics in forestry and land-use change implementing IPCC standards
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Kurz, W.A., Dymond, C.C., White, T.M., Stinson, G., Shaw, C.H., Rampley, G.J., Smyth, C., Simpson, B.N., Neilson, E.T., Trofymow, J.A., Metsaranta, J., and Apps, M.J.
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ECOLOGICAL models , *ECOSYSTEM management , *LAND use & the environment , *FOREST surveys , *ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring , *CARBON sequestration , *FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
The scientific community, forest managers, environmental organizations, carbon-offset trading systems and policy-makers require tools to account for forest carbon stocks and carbon stock changes. In this paper we describe updates to the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) implemented over the past years. This model of carbon-dynamics implements a Tier 3 approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Good Practice Guidance for reporting on carbon stocks and carbon stock changes resulting from Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). The CBM-CFS3 is a generic modelling framework that can be applied at the stand, landscape and national levels. The model provides a spatially referenced, hierarchical system for integrating datasets originating from different forest inventory and monitoring programs and includes a structure that allows for tracking of land areas by different land-use and land-use change classes. Ecosystem pools in CBM-CFS3 can be easily mapped to IPCC-defined pools and validated against field measurements. The model uses sophisticated algorithms for converting volume to biomass and explicitly simulates individual annual disturbance events (natural and anthropogenic). Several important scientific updates have been made to improve the representation of ecosystem structure and processes from previous versions of CBM-CFS. These include: (1) an expanded representation of dead organic matter and soil carbon, particularly standing dead trees, and a new algorithm for initializing these pools prior to simulation, (2) a change in the input data requirement for simulating growth from biomass to readily available merchantable volume curves, and new algorithms for converting volume to biomass, (3) improved prediction of belowground biomass, and (4) improved parameters for soil organic matter decay, fire, insect disturbances, and forest management. In addition, an operational-scale version of CBM-CFS3 is freely... [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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42. Conservation of forest-dwelling arthropod species: simultaneous management of many small and heterogeneous risks.
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Spence, John R., Langor, David W., Jacobs, Joshua M., Work, Timothy T., and Volney, W. Jan A.
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FOREST conservation ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,VEGETATION management ,FOREST ecology ,ARTHROPODA ,HABITATS ,BIOTIC communities - Abstract
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- 2008
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43. Beautiful Plantations: can intensive silviculture help Canada to fulfill ecological and timber production objectives?
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Park, Andrew and Wilson, Edward R.
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SILVICULTURAL systems ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,ECONOMIC competition ,RAW materials ,ECONOMIC botany ,TREE farms ,SOCIAL policy ,MANAGEMENT - Abstract
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- 2007
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44. Forest management in a changing climate: building the environmental information base for southwest Yukon.
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Ogden, A. E.
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CLIMATE change ,ACCLIMATIZATION ,INFORMATION resources ,DECISION making ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST management ,MANAGEMENT - Abstract
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- 2007
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45. Sustaining sustained yield: class, politics, and post-war forest regulation in British Columbia.
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Prudham, Scott
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SUSTAINABLE development , *FOREST management , *LANDSCAPE protection , *FOREST policy , *FORESTS & forestry , *POLITICAL ecology , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
In British Columbia, Canada, industrial sustained-yield forest regulation was embraced together with a system of forest tenures governing private access to public forest lands in the mid-1940s. This approach has underpinned forest exploitation and regulation ever since, despite sometimes significant reforms over the years. Yet this approach to forest policy has also come under fire in recent years because of pervasive signs of economic, social, and environmental exhaustion. In this paper I analyze the political circumstances surrounding adoption of this particular approach to governing forest access and forest use in the province of British Columbia. In particular, I draw on historical documentation related to two key provincial Royal Commissions on Forestry conducted in the 1940s and 1950s. These commissions provided an arena for debating alternative approaches to forest regulation in the province, and resulted in a series of recommendations that were key influences on postwar forest policy. Drawing on the debate and particularly on the positions adopted by socialists and trade unionists, I link the politics of forest regulation to the politics of class struggle and class compromise in early postwar British Columbia. This serves the purpose of highlighting important, alternative ideas about forest use values and exchange values that contrast with those that underpin conventional, commodity-oriented forestry in the province, as well as with contemporary alternatives to mainstream forestry. It also serves the purpose of exploring the organization of political consent around industrial, sustained-yield forestry, treating this model of regulation not as something ‘natural’, but rather as something politically contingent and negotiated. And finally, I examine seldom explored links between the politics of producing and regulating nature, and the politics of class struggle under capitalism more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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46. The Not So Clear-Cut Nature of Organizational Legitimating Mechanisms - in the Canadian Forest Sector.
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Driscoll, Cathy
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LEGITIMACY of governments ,FORESTS & forestry ,COMMUNITY forests ,FOREST management ,MANAGEMENT information systems ,ORGANIZATIONAL legitimacy - Abstract
The Canadian forest sector provides a rich contextual basis for examining organizational legitimacy and legitimating mechanisms. The author used qualitative methods and discourse analysis to explore how the Canadian forest sector exhibits a hybrid mix of substantive and symbolic management of legitimacy and of procedural and symbolic processes of legitimation. Findings support the mystifying nature of "green" legitimation and the superficial and mystifying nature of some of the discourse that is being used in this sector. In some cases, language is being used to attempt to change definitions of social legitimacy to enhance a record of sustainable forest management practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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47. A national portrait of community forestry on public land in Canada.
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Teitelbaum, Sara, Beckley, Tom, and Nadeau, Solange
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COMMUNITY forestry ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry ,NATURAL resources ,COMMUNITY forests ,SUSTAINABLE forestry ,PUBLIC lands ,FORESTRY literature - Abstract
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- 2006
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48. Monitoring Canada's forests: The National Forest Inventory.
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Gillis, M. D., Omule, A. Y., and Brierley, T.
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FOREST management ,FOREST reserves ,INFORMATION resources ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
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- 2005
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49. An active adaptive management case study in Ontario boreal aamixedwood stands.
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MacDonald, G. Blake and Rice, James A.
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TAIGAS ,ADAPTIVE sampling (Statistics) ,RESOURCE management ,ACTIVE learning ,FOREST management ,FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
Active adaptive management has recently been advocated for efficiently reducing resource management uncertainties, but no documented applications to forestry issues exist in Ontario. This paper reports the experience of a diverse partnership applying active adaptive management to improve techniques for obtaining desired boreal mixedwood structure and composition in northeastern Ontario. Institutional and economic barriers have been more limiting than technical barriers. Building and maintaining the partnership have required considerable effort, and opportunities for conflict were greatest in the assessment and design steps of the adaptive management cycle. The partnership has maintained its progress by promoting flexibility, trust, and consensus-building. This study demonstrates that classical adaptive management can be simplified for application in local management units. A broader application of active adaptive management in Ontario will require senior decision-makers to endorse a strategy that includes staff retraining, admission of management uncertainties, cooperation among management agencies, stability of long-term funding, encouragement of innovation, and regular adjustment of policies and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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50. Environmental assessment of forestry in Canada.
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Bonnell, Steve
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FORESTS & forestry ,ENVIRONMENTAL engineering ,FOREST management ,DECISION making ,STOCKHOLDERS - Abstract
Environmental assessment (EA) is widely used as a means of identifying and addressing the potential environmental effects of proposed development activities. This paper provides an overview of EA and its application to forest management in Canada. Forestry planning processes in Canada generally include consideration of environmental issues and stakeholder participation, and therefore incorporate key aspects of EA as part of the planning exercise. EA review can, however, provide an opportunity to further assess and consider the potential environmental effects of proposed forestry activities, as required, as well as involve other relevant parties in decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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