Canadian Silviculture - Issues including Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter

	Current Issue - May 2008 Cover Story Carbon & Nutrient Cycling Forests are being valued as a source of biomass for energy, and as a way of sequestering and storing atmospheric carbon, but is the harvest of forest biomass for bioenergy sustainable? Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA Report Quebec Report (French) Quebec Report (English) Ontario Report Nova Scotia Report Focus on Safety Features Global Carbon Markets Trees for Change The Potential Role of Secondary Structure in Forest Renewal After Mountain Pine Beetle
	February 2008 Cover Story Getting Tree Planter Fit As many tree planters have learned, there is fit, and then there is tree planting fit. The reality for most is that a regular fitness program won’t necessarily get you ready for the type of stress and physical output required by a summer on the cut block. Read entire story... Columns Editorial WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (French) Quebec Report (English) Nova Scotia Report Forest Health Features Forests for Tomorrow Ontario Sustainable Forest Tenures Have Conservation Benefits Tree Improvement in a Changing Climate Tree Seed Centres Inexpensive Regeneration of Acadian Forests
	November 2007 Cover Story The Haida Gwaii Climate Forest Restoration The Haida Gwaii Climate Forest Project will be converting inefficient brush-dominated riparian reserve, park, and agricultural crop land into healthy, native conifer-dominated forest. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Letters to the Editor Forest Health Forest Safety WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (French) Quebec Report (English) Nova Scotia Report PEI Report Features New Research Guides Ecosystem Management Adaptive Forest Management in Newfoundland & Labrador The History of Forest Nursery Development in BC: A Reflection of Policy and Technology Meeting Forestry’s Safety Challenges
	August 2007 Cover Story Land Use Planning: Rising to the Challenge Our first priority as Canadians should be to determine what we need to protect in order to sustain ecosystems, which in turn sustain us. Read entire story... Columns Forest Health Western Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (French) Quebec Report (English) New Brunswick Report PEI Report Nova Scotia Report Focus on Safety Features Somatic Embryogenesis Technology Adaptive Management in BC: Learning from Our Forests Stock Handling Innovations Supervisor Course Responds to Industry Demands
	May 2007 Cover Story Benchmarking Healthy Ecosystems How much resource development can be supported by natural ecosystems without compromising ecological integrity? The general proposition of establishing ecological benchmarks is largely intuitive. As the scale of human activities expands to the scale of ecosystems, and as we experience increasing effects of climate change, establishing references is critical to identifying effective management strategies. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA report Ontario Report Quebec Report (French Quebec Report (English) New Brunswick Report Nova Scotia Report Focus on Safety Features Use and Utility of Forest Biomass Crop Tree Spot Selection Adaptive Forest Management in Quebec
	February 2007 Cover Story MPB Invasion of Boreal Forests The MPB is rapidly expanding its range. The beetle attacks and kills many pine species and has successfully colonized lodgepole and jack pine hybrids, so the risk of it continuing to disperse eastward into jack pine forests is high. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA report Ontario Report Quebec Report: French Quebec Report: English New Brunswick Report Nova Scotia Report PEI Report Focus on Safety Features Management of White Pine Ecosystems in Ontario: From Exploitative to Adaptive Biomass Forest Management: TallOil Case Study
	November 2006 Cover Story Managing Forest Carbon Carbon budgeting is made simpler with a stand and landscape-level modelling framework that simulates forest carbon dynamics. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (Translation) New Brunswick Report Nova Scotia Report Focus on Safety Industry News Features Silviculture & Climate Change Forest Management: More Than Timber Adaptive Forest Management SAFE Companies
	August 2006 Cover Story Integrated Vegetation Management: Is it Right for you? Integrated vegetation management programs include mechanical, manual, biological, cultural, and herbicide control measures to deal with undesirable vegetation. Read entire story... Columns Editorial WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report New Brunswick Report Nova Scotia Report PEI Report Industry News Focus on Safety Forest Health Features New Tool for Integrated Water Quality Management Loss of Workforce Experience Results in Shrinking Capacity and Increased Costs How to Tread Lightly, Save Money & Still Get Your Work Done
	May 2006 Cover Story Stock Handling Stock handling prescriptions are designed to minimize stresses to seedlings in the transition time between growth in nurseries and plantations. Stresses are cumulative, so sequential stresses magnify their effects as more are encountered. Seedlings’ sensitivities to stresses change according to their status in their annual growth cycle. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Letter to the Editor Focus on Safety Industry News Forest Health WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report New Brunswick Report Nova Scotia Report PEI Report Features Simultaneous Site Preparation and Ground Seeding Tree Planting 101 A Root-Bound Index for Container-Grown Pines Exporting Canadian Expertise Advertising Feature JRP
	February 2006 Cover Story Biomass Energy Production Rising energy prices and changing market dynamics is making bio-energy the solution of choice. Canadian mills are rethinking their materials and energy flow to survive. Localized bioenergy production offers bioenergy solutions to restoring forest health through removing residues. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Western Report Ontario Report Quebec Report - French Quebec Report - Translation New Brunswick Report Focus on Safety Forest Health Features Silviculture Initiatives in the National Forest Strategy Global Trends, Local Options: Use and Utility of Forest Biomass GPRC scientist completes forest research project: Findings present opportunities for sustainable reforestation
	Fall 2005 Cover Story Managing MPB in Canada’s National Parks Parks Canada is using prescribed burning to reduce the susceptibility of the forest to mountain pine beetle (MPB) and improve biodiversity. Officials are also creating fuel breaks to reduce the risk of wildfire spread. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Letter to the Editor Forest Health Western Report Ontario Report Quebec Report Nova Scotia Report PEI Report New Brunswick Report Focus on Safety Features Thinning as a Restoration Tool F and H Layer Planting Free Growing Transfers
	Summer 2005 Cover Story Site Preparation Equipment Review Mechanical site preparation prepares a forest site for planting or enhanced natural regeneration. Treatments include mounding, trenching, spot scarifying, drag or blade scarifying, piling, and stumping. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health Focus on Safety Western Report Quebec Report New Brunswick Report Features Carbon and Forest Ecosystem Management Bioenergy Global Warming and the Chilling Requirements of Conifers Advertising Feature Spectrum Resource Group Inc
	Spring 2005 Cover Story Recent Developments in Silviculture Recent changes in silviculture include utilizing more intensive silviculture treatments, generating timber as well as non-timber values from forests, and incorporating carbon into silvicultural thinking. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Industry News Forest Health Western Report Ontario Report Quebec Report New Brunswick Report PEI Report Focus on Safety Features Aerial & Satellite Imaging Surveys Aerial Seeding The Bas-Saint-Laurent Model Forest
	Winter 2005 Cover Story Fuel Reduction & Ecological Reforestation Ecological restoration work parallels the process of fuel reduction by reducing stem density, manipulating fuels to prevent stand replacement fires, and preserving the cohort of veteran and wildlife trees. Photos by Don Gayton. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (Fr) Quebec Report (Eng) New Brunswick Report PEI Report Focus on Safety Features FSC & Plantations Natural Disasters Affecting Forest Land Reforesting MPB Devastation
	Fall 2004 Cover Story Commercial Thinning Equipment Review The traditional cut-to-length harvester and forwarder team has been used for many years in thinning operations but combi and dual machines are now integrating these processes into one base machine. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report Quebec Report (Translation) New Brunswick Report PEI Report Nova Scotia Report Report on Safety Features Aboriginal Silviculture Opportunities for Change in Canada's Boreal Forest Region Commercial Thinning Increases Habitat Value
	Summer 2004 Cover Story Preventing and Managing Forest Fires in the Wildland Urban Interface Changes in forest structure and climate have increased wildfire risk around communities. The choices before us are to take preventative action at the community and forest management level, or to continue to invest the majority of our dollars in the reactive processes of fire fighting. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Focus on Safety Forest Health Western Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (French Quebec Report (English) New Brunswick Report PEI Report Nova Scotia Report Features An Ecosystem Approach to Manage for Climate Change A History of Canadian Treeplanting Tools Intensive Forest Management Decision-Making in Ecosystem-based Management
	Spring 2004 Cover Story Forest Ecosystem Management While freeing forest management from the direct control of mills and taking other progressive steps, many challenges remain to get beyond the buzzword state to a committed market driven scientific area and ecosystem based stewardship. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA Report Ontario Report Quebec Report (French Quebec Report (English) New Brunswick Report PEI Report Canker Threatens PCT Focus on Safety Features Fertilization for Planted Seedlings Integrated Landscape Management BC Forest & Paper Industry Grows
	Winter 2004 Cover Story Silviculture Contracting Within SFM Silviculture investment is a central ingredient to sustainable development, in terms of ecological, social and economic dimensions. Read entire story... Columns Editorial Forest Health WSCA Report LUSTR Report Quebec Report (French Quebec Report (English) PEI Report Nova Scotia Report Focus on Safety Features Fuel for Thought: Bioenergy The New Silviculture in New Brunswick
	Fall 2003 Cover Story Canada's Forestry Sector and the Bioeconomy The emergence of the bioeconomy will pave the way to an unprecedented expansion of the forestry sector by opening new markets and offering new perspectives on the way forest resources will be managed. Read entire story... Columns Editorial WSCA Report Quebec Report (French Quebec Report (English) PEI Report Nova Scotia Report New Brunswick Report Focus on Safety What’s New Features Forest Ecology World Forest Congress