2023: Leveraging Technology to Improve Silviculture and the Digitalization of the Value Chain

Proceedings

• A review of challenges and research priorities for northern hardwood forests.

  Storm Robinson, Joey Volpe

  • PDF | 2023 - NHC - Gap Analysis Report

• Northern Hardwoods Research Institute's Silviculture Prescription System Workshop

  Gaetan Pelletier

  • Youtube | Introduction to the NHRI's SIlvicultural Prescription System 2.0

• Past, Present, and Future of the Hardwood Forest in New Brunswick Part II: A joint session between the Northern Hardwoods Research Institute Executive Director Gaetan Pelletier and Assistant Deputy Minister of the Department of Natural Resources and Development, Chris Ward

  Gaetan Pelletier

• Constraining Irregular Shelterwood System for use at Haliburton Forest.

  Thomas McCay

• Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: Early Structural and Compositional Outcomes in northern New England Northern Hardwood Forests

  Jessica Wikle, Anthony D’Amato

• Assessing vigor when tree marking: the importance of crown dieback

  François Guillemette

• Ten-year response of northern hardwoods to irregular shelterwood in Québec

  Steve Bédard

• Improving hardwood bucking techniques in cut-to-length harvesting operations in Acadian forests of New Brunswick

  Caroline Bennemann

  • LINK: Influence of Tree, Stand, and Site Attributes on Hardwood Product Yield: Insights into the Acadian Forests

• Natural and artificial regeneration in northern hardwood stands in relation to harvest, browsing, and competition.

  Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier,

• Hedging bets against change: silvicultural alternatives for managing the adaptive capacity of northern hardwood forests

  Julia I. Burton

• Tree selection based on the financial maturity of northern hardwoods

  Malcolm Cockwell

• TransX – A new network of provenance trials across eastern Canada and the US to test the warming vulnerability of northeastern tree species and their assisted migration potential.

  Loic D'Orangeville

• Evaluating the efficacy of high-stumping as a mechanical treatment to control ironwood (Ostrya virginiana)

  Greg Edge

• Predicting log grade volumes in sugar maple and yellow birch trees in Quebec’s hardwood stands

  Filip Havreljuk

• Strategies for Managing Compositionally Degraded Mixedwood Stands

  Laura Kenefic

• Establishing the future forest through collaborative research and management: DREAM

  Christel C. Kern, Alejandro A. Royo , Patricia Raymond

  • LINK: Desired REgeneration through Assisted Migration (DREAM): Implementing a research framework for climate-adaptive silviculture.

• The influence of winter aggregations of moose on browsing in the Acadian Forest

  Stéphanie Landry

• Seeing the Forests through the Deer: A Regional Assessment of White-tailed Deer Browsing Preferences and the Impact on Forest Regeneration

  Amanda M. McGraw

• Development of algorithms to automatically identify and spatialize all the trees in complex one-hectare 3D point cloud stands.

  Philippe Nolet

• Sapling based recruitment model for sugar maple-dominated stands of Quebec.

  Hugues Power

• Application of irregular shelterwood systems as an approach to achieve multi-species management in temperate forests

  Patricia Raymond

• Adaptive silviculture to save our sugar maple – with a focus on artificial regeneration. An NHRI workshop.

  Storm Robinson

• The Interaction of Site and Silviculture: Lessons Learned from Long-Term Studies in the Northeast United States

  Nicole Rogers

• Early changes in forest structure and deer use in a 140-site northern hardwoods alternative silviculture systems study.

  Mike Walters

• Mobile Laser Scanning for Estimating Tree Structural Attributes in a Temperate Hardwood Forests

  Bastien Vandendaele

• Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: Early Structural and Compositional Outcomes in northern New England Northern Hardwood Forests

  Jessica Wikle

• Ecological Forestry and the Triad in Nova Scotia: Implications for Hardwood Management

  James Steenberg

  • PDF: Nova Scotia’s Hardwood Resource: Estimated Sawlog Volumes by Species, Quality, and Accessibility
  • PDF: Crop Tree Release in Tolerant Hardwoods
  • PDF: Restoring Late Successional Species Through the Release of Future Seed Trees
  • PDF: The long-term branching and diameter response of pre-commercially thinned hardwood stands in Nova Scotia.
  • PDF: Selection Harvest Survey: 8 Year Post-Harvest Results

• How local markets shape silvicultural decisions in the field

  Nathan Christie

• Incorporating climate change into strategic forest planning: A Gagetown case study using new yields and succession rules for the Acadian forest

  Cédric Albert

• SFI’s Climate Smart Forestry Objective in the Context of Northern Hardwoods

  Darren Sleep

• Future of Forestry

  Doug Jones

• Priortizing crown dieback when tree marking increases value recovery as well as stand vigor.

  John Caspersen

• Indigenous Seed Collection Scientific Presentation

  Donnie McPhee

• Gap Dynamics or More Than That? Long-term Development of Mixed Hardwood Forests

  Neil Pederson