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This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation—an integrative and proactive new approach to sustaining the integrity of vast natural ecosystems—by presenting the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC), an initiative comprised of Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (ENGOs), First Nations groups, resource-extractive corporations, and financial institutions committed to collectively addressing issues impacting Canada's boreal forest. Drawing on multi-sited participant-observation and interviews with BLC members and affiliates, I show how the BLC challenges wilderness-oriented definitions of conservation by undertaking projects that intertwine...
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Assessing the impacts of cumulative, non-lethal damages to forests poses a particular challenge to forest management planning since cumulative merchantable volume losses are not known until the time of harvest. This paper introduces a model that scales stand-level processes to their large-scale implications by combining elements of growth and yield modeling, insect infestation modeling, and large-scale spatial harvest simulation. The model is described and tested using the proposed large-scale introduction of weevil-resistant spruce in British Columbia, Canada as a case study. While spruce weevil damages were found to be significant, only a relatively small percentage of losses can be avoided by planting resistant...
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Characterizing the amount and configuration of forests can provide insights into habitat quality, biodiversity, and land use. The establishment of protected areas can be a mechanism for maintaining large, contiguous areas of forests, and the loss and fragmentation of forest habitat is a potential threat to Canada's national park system. Using the Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests (EOSD) land cover product (EOSD LC 2000), we characterize the circa 2000 forest patterns in 26 of Canada's national parks and compare these to forest patterns in the ecological units surrounding these parks, referred to as the greater park ecosystem (GPE). Five landscape pattern metrics were analyzed: number of forest...
Patterns of forest diversity are less well known in the boreal forest of interior Alaska than in most ecosystems of North America. Proactive forest planning requires spatially accurate information about forest diversity. Modeling is a cost-efficient way of predicting key forest diversity measures as a function of human and environmental factors.
map background search result map search result map Validation of MODIS FPAR Products in Boreal Forests of Alaska Successional Changes in Carbon Stocks After Logging and Deforestation for Agriculture in Interior Alaska: Implications for Boreal Climate Feedbacks Characterizing the forest fragmentation of Canada's national parks Knowing a socially sustainable forest when you see one: implications for results-based forestry Implementing sustainable forest management in the Yukon Effects of overtopping on growth of white spruce in Alaska Plant species diversity on logged versus burned sites in central Alaska Modeling the timber supply impact of introducing weevil-resistant spruce in British Columbia with cellular automata Forests of southeast and south-central Alaska, 2004–2008: five-year forest inventory and analysis report Forest health restoration in south-central Alaska: A problem analysis Long-term influence of stand thinning and repeated fertilization on forage production in young lodgepole pine forests Canada's Large Intact Forest Landscapes Updated to 2013 Estimating product and energy substitution benefits in national‐scale mitigation analyses for Canada Modeling and mapping forest diversity in the boreal forest of interior Alaska Boreal forest prospects and politics: Paradoxes of first nations participation in multi-sector conservation Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada Effects of overtopping on growth of white spruce in Alaska Characterizing the forest fragmentation of Canada's national parks Successional Changes in Carbon Stocks After Logging and Deforestation for Agriculture in Interior Alaska: Implications for Boreal Climate Feedbacks Modeling and mapping forest diversity in the boreal forest of interior Alaska Forest health restoration in south-central Alaska: A problem analysis Forests of southeast and south-central Alaska, 2004–2008: five-year forest inventory and analysis report Implementing sustainable forest management in the Yukon Validation of MODIS FPAR Products in Boreal Forests of Alaska Modeling the timber supply impact of introducing weevil-resistant spruce in British Columbia with cellular automata Long-term influence of stand thinning and repeated fertilization on forage production in young lodgepole pine forests Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada Knowing a socially sustainable forest when you see one: implications for results-based forestry Plant species diversity on logged versus burned sites in central Alaska Canada's Large Intact Forest Landscapes Updated to 2013 Estimating product and energy substitution benefits in national‐scale mitigation analyses for Canada Boreal forest prospects and politics: Paradoxes of first nations participation in multi-sector conservation