Silvicultural Guide To The Black Spruce Working Group

"The main purposes of this guide are : to summarize the knowledge of the silvics of spruce; to desctibe the current timber management practices for spruce in Ontario; to identify key factors that the manager must consider during the development of the Timber Management Plan and site specific prescriptions; and provide a basis for subsequnt development in both knowledge and practice. ... The principles outlined herein may be applied elswehere."--Page 1

This guide provides silvicultural and ecological information for the management of black spruce, jack pine, and aspen within the context of sustainable forest management in Ontario. Section I introduces and explains the ecological and management interpretations of Section II, the terms and graphical conventions used, how the interpretations were derived, the limitations to their application, and data sources. Section II delivers a suite of ecological and silvicultural information within the framework of general standard forest ecosystem classification site types for north-west Ontario.