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Dead whitebark pine near Whistler, B.C.  
Dr. Allan Orr-Ewing, the first geneticist in the B.C. Forest Service, standing beside one of his wide-crossed Douglas-fir progeny.
Mike Carlson and Chang-Yi Xie, beside a 15-year old lodgepole pine 'forward' selection for the Prince George Selection Unit.
   
 
Research Branch, B.C. Forest Service genetics trial installation sign, which typically marks our trials out in the field.  
Yellow cypress rooted cutting hedges at CLRS.
John King in a western white pine realized gain blister rust resistance trial, near Jordan River, B.C.
   
 
Charlie Cartwright and Keith Bird at a 2nd generation coastal Douglas-fir progeny test (fenced to protect against deer browsing).  
The Goat River lodgepole pine provenance test, near McBride, B.C., almost completely killed by mountain pine beetle attack, in 2004.
Rooted cuttings of Populus trichocarpa and balsamifera which were planted on three sites in 2005 as part of a range-wide provenance study.
   
 
Realized gain demonstration plots of lodgepole pine at the Kalamalka Research Station; left column is 1) wildstand controls, mid-column is 2) mid-gain parent mix, and right column 3) is high gain parental mix.  
Typical damage caused by Pissodes strobi on Sitka spruce.
         

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