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- 93Sustainable forestry
- 74Boreal forests
- 45Forest fires
- 31Canada
- 23Canada, Alberta
- 15Sustainable Forest Management Network
- 11Smith, Daniel W.
- 10Bergeron, Yves
- 9Gauthier, Sylvie
- 7Prepas, E.
- 6Johnson, E.A.
- 154Sustainable Forest Management Network
- 107Sustainable Forest Management Network/Project Reports (Sustainable Forest Management Network)
- 32Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 32Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 22Renewable Resources, Department of
- 18Renewable Resources, Department of/Journal Articles (Renewable Resources)
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2006
Wein, R.W., Cumming, S.G., Flannigan, M.D., Krawchuk, M.A.
Lighting, fire is the dominant natural disturbance of the western mixedwood boreal forest of North America. We quantified the independent effects of weather and forest composition oil lightning fire initiation (a detected and recorded fire start) patterns in Alberta, Canada, to demonstrate how...
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Spring 2018
Understory protection is a harvesting approach that seeks to protect understory conifers during hardwood harvesting in mixedwood forests. While understory protection harvesting has been implemented for over a decade in Alberta, there has been no study of its ecological value to birds. We surveyed...
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Boreal trees can grow on saline sites – implications for reclamation success on saline soils
Download2015-03-04
Soils from oil sands mining can be affected by salts leached from tailings or overburden materials – resulting in saline soil conditions. As a result, re-establishment of forests on saline sites is an important goal on reclaimed oil sands mines. Forest vegetation is typically thought to be...
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Breeding Bird Communities in Boreal Forest of Western Canada: Consequences of "Unmixing" the Mixedwoods
Download2000
Silvicultural practices following clearcutting in boreal forest may encourage the creation of monospecific, single-aged stands having less vegetation heterogeneity and diversity than original stands. We conducted point counts in central Saskatchewan, Canada, 1993–1995, in pure and mixedwood...
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Canadian Forest Tenures as Incentive Frameworks for the Silvicultural Expenditures of Private Firms
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Luckert, Martin K., Haley, David
In Canada, where most forest lands are publicly owned, forest management responsibilities are delegated to the private sector through licensing arrangements which grant limited usurfructuary rights. In order to ensure that public silvicultural goals are met on licensed public lands, various...