Keyword: health

• Forest management and climate change.
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/0186.htm
  Forest management decisions made now will effect forests many decades into the future. Thus it is important for managers to take account of how forests may respond to future climatic conditions. Unfortunately, the picture of what the climate will be at specific locations and times in the future is not clear. Even less clear is the picture of how organisms will respond. Consequently, management actions to address climate change must be flexible and such that they do not compromise the health of the forest should the climate not change as predicted. Actions will further be complicated by differing values placed on forests by society, disagreement on whether impacts of climate change are positive or negative, and the priority of governments for addressing other impacts. Also, there will be increased pressure to manage forests to offset emissions from the burning of fossil fuel and to moderate the effects of climate change on non-timber resources. Incorporating responses into forest management planning require ...

• Thinning and fertilizing effects in root diseases of Douglas-fir in coastal British Columbia.
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1137.htm
  B.C. Ministry of Forests, Forest Practices Branch, Victoria. Forest Health Disease Management Report No. 1. 29 p. ...

• Seed source selection and deployment to address adaptation to future climates for interior spruce in western Canada.
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1403.htm
  Climate change is already signficantly affecting the health and productivity of Canada’s forests. Planted forests that are adapted to today’s climate will be maladapted when they are harvested in 60-80 years. However, if seedlots for reforestation are selected so as to maximize their adaptation over the duration of their rotation, productivity of Canada’s forests could be enhanced by capitalizing on increased future temperatures. To ensure that the most economically important tree crop planted in Canada - interior spruce (white and engelmann spruce and their hybrids) - is adapted to future climates, forest scientists from western North America have initiated a long-term project that will act as a cornerstone to the genetic resource management of interior spruce in western North America, and as a model for other species and regions. Wild and domesticated interior spruce seedlots from 128 locations encompassing the climatic and latitudinal range of interior spruce in western North America have been caref ...