The Fundy Model Forest has been granted $251,382 by the department of Environment and Climate Change, Community Based Climate Action fund, to carry out the project "Operationalizing Carbon Sequestration Strategies on the Ground on New Brunswick Private Woodlots". The FMF will work with woodlot owners, contractors and organizations to increase the capacity of the sector to increase resilience and carbon storage in managed forests.
We are looking forward to contributing to the knowledge and opportunities associated with managing private forests for carbon sequestration.
Linking Policy to Practice
Join us November 13th and 14th, 2019
Workshop Objective:
To facilitate discussion about the management of our Atlantic urban forests. Topics will include: policy development and implementation, balancing economics, the environment and aesthetics, tools and strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate events, pest and disease, urban and landscape design, current research and much more.
Who should attend:
Representatives from Municipal and Provincial Government, Certified Arborists, Foresters, Developers, Planners, Architects, Landscape Architects, Nursery Industry and related Trades, researchers, teachers and students — this event is also open to the public.
Location:
Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building Social Sciences Building (Dalhousie Univeristy)
6135 University Avenue 6,
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Cost:
$250 General Admission
$225 Early Bird (Before September 1, 2019)
$150 Student (With Valid ID)
It is the time of the year where we start to get back into New Brunswick Forests to hunt for non-timber forest products like fiddleheads and mushrooms. The forests of New Brunswick contain a wealth of plant and animal species. For woodlot owners, the values and reasons for owning woodland are as diverse as the plants and animals living in them.
Our Atlantic Woods: A Photo Guide to Non-timber Forest Products by Ron Smith is the perfect companion. The photo guide is intended to help you identify some of the plants growing in your woodlot and the NTFP's that can be obtained from them.
Population Viability Analysis (PVA) is of interest to both conservation biologists and the forest sector, because it can predict the potential impact of forest practices on wildlife populations now and into the future. In an adaptive management framework, PVA can inform how forestry practices might be altered to mitigate adverse impacts. PVA provides crucial information for assessment by describing the current state of a population, predicting future population changes, and identifying any threats to population persistence. Assessment and adaptive management are complementary goals and essential for sustainable forest management.
The goal of this project is to develop PVA protocols for use by government, the forest sector and the public. The protocols can then be used to predict the impact of our activities and identify populations that are in jeopardy of being eliminated from the local or regional landscape (This is not a research project but, will take data, models and knowledge we already have and apply practically).
Blackburnian Warbler
Funding and research partners: