Implications of Intensive Silviculture and Mixedwood Dynamics on Forest Management Videos

Implications of Intensive Silviculture and Mixedwood Dynamics on Forest Management Workshop
Jan. 28, 2010
K.C. Irving Theatre, Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre, Fredericton, N.B.
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Sponsored by: Sustainable Forest Management Network, Fundy Model Forest and J.D. Irving, Limited

This Workshop presented results of 10 graduate student projects at University of New Brunswick and Université de Moncton, in partnership with the above workshop sponsors, addressing dynamics of mixedwood stands and relationship of stand composition and structure to habitat in silviculturally treated stands (plantations and pre-commercially thinned stands). This large project took place in two study areas about 300 km apart, in northern N.B. (Black Brook District) and southern N.B. (Fundy Model Forest). The Black Brook District is among the most intensively managed landscapes in Canada, and silviculture since 1957 provides a wealth of sites for study. Fundy Model Forest is a 400,000ha mix of ownerships (Crown, large industrial, private woodlots, and Fundy National Park) and forest types in southern N.B, which is less intensively managed than the Black Brook District. Both areas contain a mix of softwood and shade-tolerant hardwood forests.

The full workshop agenda is available here.

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1. Introduction
2. Demographic response of songbird species to selection harvesting at stand and landscape scales: a before-after experiment
3. Tolerant hardwood natural regeneration 15 years after silvicultural treatments on an industrial freehold in northwestern NB
4. Triad zoning scenarios of intensive silviculture and reserve allocation on Crown License 1