Jack pine stem analysis data from 383 fully stocked, mature, undisturbed plots were collected from studies located in four Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources regions (Northeast, Northern, North Central, Northwestern) ...

An investigation was made into the applicability of a model used to assist in planning the allocation of pre-commercial thinning to juvenile jack pine stands. The hypothesis of this study was that planning pre-commercial ...

The effects that ground speed and obstacle height have upon microsite creation by the Bracke scarifier and upon the seeding characteristics of the integral seeder were studied. The study was conducted in a former gravel ...

Public sentiment is against herbicide use on public forests in Ontario. Provincial policies are directing research into alternative vegetation management with only limited interaction or support with forest resource based ...

The broad sense heritability of total height, annual height increment, diameter, volume index and syllepsis of II provenances of tamarack in northwestern Ontario were examined. Genetic and Pearson Product Moment correlations ...

Understory feeding by the spruce budworm ( Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) has potential to alter the species composition of established regeneration and therefore the value of the future forest. This study sets out to ...

Northeastern Ghana, West Africa, is characterised by a high population growth rate and adverse climatic conditions, e.g., a long dry season followed by a short-duration but intense rainfall pattern. Land degradation in ...

This study reports on a community development project conducted in Charia, a small village in northwestern Ghana. The primary intent of the study was to field-test the participatory action research approach of actively ...

Dispersal is a critical trait during the life history of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.), which leads to its widespread infestation and damage. Budworm dispersal study is of importance for protecting ...