A Silvicultural Guide To Managing Southern Ontario Forests

"Describes silvicultural practices for managing southern Ontario tree species. It also provides current scientific and technological information for resource managers to use in developing forest prescriptions for these species"--Ontario.ca.

"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

ECOLOGICAL SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS Unleash the natural power and adaptability of forests with this cutting-edge guide For generations, silvicultural systems have focused largely on models whose primary objective is the production of timber, leading to drastically simplified forests with reduced ecological richness, diversity, and complexity. Ecological silviculture, by contrast, focuses on producing and maintaining forests with “all their parts”—, that is, with the diversity and flexibility to respond and adapt to global changes. Ecological silviculture seeks to emulate natural development models and sustain healthy forests serving multiple values and goals. Ecological Silvicultural Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to these approaches and their benefits tailored to diverse types of forests, designed for forest management professionals. It provides a series of exemplary models for ecological silviculture and surveys the resulting forest ecosystems. The result is a text that meets the needs of professionals in forestry and natural resource management with an eye towards sustaining healthy forest ecosystems, adapting them to climate change, protecting them from invasive species, and responding to changing market forces. Ecological Silvicultural Systems readers will also find: Detailed treatment of forest ecosystems in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia A broad field of contributors with decades of combined expertise on multiple continents Discussion of pine woodlands; temperate hardwood forests, boreal forests, temperate rainforests, and more Ecological Silvicultural Systems is a useful reference for professional foresters, wildlife habitat managers, restoration ecologists, and undergraduate and graduate students in any of these fields.

The most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on silviculture that covers the range of topics and issues facing today’s foresters and resource professionals The tenth edition of the classic work, The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, includes the most current information and the results of research on the many issues that are relevant to forests and forestry. The text covers such timely topics as biofuels and intensive timber production, ecosystem and landscape scale management of public lands, ecosystem services, surface drinking water supplies, urban and community greenspace, forest carbon, fire and climate, and much more. In recent years, silvicultural systems have become more sophisticated and complex in application, particularly with a focus on multi-aged silviculture. There have been paradigm shifts toward managing for more complex structures and age-classes for integrated and complementary values including wildlife, water and open space recreation. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition covers a wide range of topics and challenges relevant to the forester or resource professional today. This full-color text offers the most expansive book on silviculture and: Includes a revised and expanded text with clear language and explanations Covers the many cutting-edge resource issues that are relevant to forests and forestry Contains boxes within each chapter to provide greater detail on particular silvicultural treatments and examples of their use Features a completely updated bibliography plus new photographs, tables and figures The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, Tenth Edition is an invaluable resource for students and professionals in forestry and natural resource management.

This publication begins with a brief overview of the Ontario Hardwood Silviculture Studies Database version 1.0, which contains descriptive information from over 90 ongoing & historical hardwood silviculture studies & trials. The main section contains an annotated bibliography of 314 publications that are included in the publications section of the Database. Citations are sorted by author's last name and publication date, and include the type of publication and the known location(s) of a hard copy. Appendices include author & subject indexes. Citations were selected for inclusion using the following criteria: the study on which the citation is based occurred in Ontario; the study included some type of silvicultural treatment & measurements of the resulting regeneration success or growth responses; and the study focussed on one or more of the following hardwood species: sugar maple, yellow birch, red oak, American beech, white ash, black cherry, or basswood.