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Community Experiences in Urban Forestry
Community Experiences in Urban Forestry brings attention to some of the critical issues in our urban forest ecosystems and, more importantly, highlights some of the many community successes in responding to these issues.
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Tree Identification
This workshop leads participants through the various characteristics that taxonomists use to distinguish between species: terms like simple and compound leaves, opposite and alternate.
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Sugar Bush Management
This set of six workshop modules addresses management planning, marking and harvesting, sugar bush problems, maple orchards, and maple facts.
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Finding Old Growth in Your Woodlot
This workshop describes various definitions of the term, and outlines some of the structural and functional characteristics that characterize old-growth forests.
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Managing Forests Under Climate Change
This workshop will guide forest managers, including private woodlot owners, through the issues and options associated with such a complex and far-reaching topic.
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Log and Lumber Quality and Measurement
This workshop introduces participants to aspects of quality in logs and sawn lumber that influence the market price.
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Conifer Plantation Management
This workshop, a series of seven modules, covers a wide range of topics pertaining to private woodlot management, and specifically to managing conifer plantations.
Modules:
- Introduction to Plantation Management
- Managing Your Plantation
- Forest Operations
- Timber Sales and Marketing
- Biodiversity and Wildlife Values
- Plantation Problems
- Restoring Your Plantation
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series: Biodiversity Indicators for Woodlot Owners
This presentation, along with a primer on biodiversity, are a set of natural indicators -- plants and animals -- whose presence you can track over time. By following these indicators over time, you'll be able to measure the health and diversity of your woodlot.
Private Woodlot Certification: Stories from Eastern Ontario
Profiles of Certified Community Forests in Eastern Ontario
Profiles of the 7 certified community forests of eastern Ontario, examining the management of each forest.