The purpose of this study was to compare the rates of disturbance along forested shorelines between natural and managed forests of the mesic boreal region of northwestern Ontario. Comparisons were made between areas that ...

Over the past 50 years, Ontario’s forest landscape has changed due to ever increasing natural resource management. The natural vegetation pattern, forest composition, and the fire regime have been altered. Maintaining ...

The Ghanaian Forests are a significant component of the country’s development. Occasioned by the rapid population growth of the country, increasing phenomena such as shifting agriculture, logging, fuelwood harvesting and ...

The principal objectives of this study were to measure the impacts of timber harvesting on sediment transport rates (mineral and organic) associated with two clearcut areas in northwestern Ontario and to evaluate the ...

The growing complexity of forest management planning issues requires the best planning tools available. A key question facing forest management planners in Ontario is whether SFMM (and its harvest-blocking tool Stanley) ...

Carbon storage was measured in natural red spruce dominated stands in the Eastern Eco-region of central Nova Scotia (NS). Twenty-four plots over a 140-year chronosequence were established. Within each plot, major carbon ...

The Alberta Wetland Inventory (AWI), which is used in a variety of applications across the province to estimate wetland cover from aerial photographs, detected only 34% of confirmed wetland field plots in boreal forest ...

This study examines the involvement of Aboriginal peoples in forest management and their perceptions and understandings of the forest, forest management, participation, consultation and Aboriginal and Treaty rights in ...

Stand structure has been linked to forest regeneration, nutrient cycling, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and climate regulation. A review and synthesis of literature indicated that boreal forest stand structure is ...