Maritime Knowledge Exchange Workshop
Fredericton, New Brunswick
March 8, 2007
Sponsors
The SFM Network and the Canadian Forest Service collaborated on a one-day workshop on sustainable forest management research and practice.
The workshop highlighted Network research in the Maritimes, including projects with our industrial partners J.D. Irving in New Brunswick and Bowater-Mersey in Nova Scotia. The presentations from this workshop can be downloaded by clicking the links below.
Presentations
Innovative Zoning
- Influence of forest management, silviculture, and pest management on carbon sequestration (5.5 MB) Dave MacLean, UNB
- Cost effectiveness of forest pest management investments for sequestering carbon (1.0 MB) Greg Slaney, UNB
- SFMN wet-areas mapping project update: towards better forest management, planning and operations practices (9.0 MB) Paul Arp, UNB
- Management implications of forest dynamics, succession, and habitat relationships under differing levels of silviculture (4.2 MB) Dave MacLean, UNB
- The effects of pre-commercial thinning on the abundance of herbaceous species. (1.2 MB) Kerienne La France, UNB
- Provision of social, economic and environmental values through varying land use intensities (600 KB) Chris Ward, UNB
Integrated Resource Management
- Public values associated with old-growth forests (400 KB) Peter Duinker, Dalhousie University
- Old-growth forests: complex perspectives (1.8 MB) Tony Pesklevits, Dalhousie University
- Ecological requirements of indicator species as guides for integrated resource management (3.1 MB) Marc-André Villard, Université de Moncton and Dave MacLean, UNB
Policy and Institutional Analysis
- A participatory approach to Aboriginal tenure reform in Canada (700 KB) Stephen Wyatt, Université de Moncton
Social and Economic Criteria and Indicators
- Social sustainability: what is it and how can we address it? (125 KB) Solange Nadeau, CFS and Tom Beckley, UNB
Please contact Catherine Rostron for more information about this workshop.