Protecting White Spruce Understories when Harvesting Aspen
Protecting White Spruce Understories when Harvesting Aspen

Author: Canada-Alberta Partnership Agreement in Forestry

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 64

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This project was aimed primarily at technology tranfer, demonstrating the integration of silvicultural and harvesting techniques for protecting spruce understories in mixedwoods. This report provides details of the silvicultural component. It stresses post-harvest implications, particularly blowdown risk and growth and yield potential of released understory, and regeneration and growth of spruce, aspen, and poplar on mechanically harvested mixedwood sites. The project addresses concerns about maintaining the coniferous component of mixedwood forests and finding alternatives to clearcutting. It covers the current status of operational understory protection and some related aspects of integrated resource management.

Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest
Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest

Author: Philip Joseph Burton

Publisher: NRC Research Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1056

ISBN-13: 9780660187624

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Presenting a summary of the development in boreal forest management, this book provides a progressive vision for some of the world's northern forests. It includes a selection of chapters based on the research conducted by the Sustainable Forest Management Network across Canada. It includes a number of case histories.

Silviculture of Temperate and Boreal Broadleaf-conifer Mixtures
Silviculture of Temperate and Boreal Broadleaf-conifer Mixtures

Author: P. G. Comeau

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 188

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This volume presents papers given at a workshop held to review current knowledge of the silviculture of temperate and boreal broadleaf-conifer mixtures and the consequences of growing mixed stands. Topics of the papers include the importance of mixedwood stands, managing birch-dominated mixed stands, competition dynamics, silvicultural systems, stand dynamics, vegetation management, red alder-conifer stands, mixedwood management research, white spruce and aspen stands, vertical stratification in mixed-species stands, habitat management for game and parasite control, simulation of long-term impacts of alder/fir mixtures, understory protection, fertilisation, control of spruce weevils, and litter decomposition.