In recent decades, retention forestry has become an increasingly popular management approach. Previous research has demonstrated that persistence of retained live trees (residuals) is higher when they are larger and more densely packed. Beyond density, minimal research has been done on how...

Innovation and knowledge exchange are critical to foster adaptive management and continual learning. Across the spectrum of knowledge exchange, ranging from peer-reviewed research to anecdotes, there is a largely untapped middle ground: real-world silvicultural case studies implemented and...

In the past two decades, forest management has undergone major paradigm shifts that are challenging the current forest modelling architecture. New silvicultural systems, guidelines for natural disturbance emulation, a desire to enhance structural complexity, major advances in successional theory,...

Although exotic (i.e., non-native) plant species are among the main factors contributing to ecosystem change globally, investigations of northern temperate and boreal forest ecosystems in North America in the context of invasion science are scarce. Multiple hypotheses, including the 'biotic...

We presented a case study and associated method for stand scale assessment of the duration of the climate change mitigation benefit provided by increasing forest harvest age (i.e., the age a stand is harvested). We used stand yield curves and newly developed equations to estimate carbon stocks in...

The design of a community-based co-management system requires a nuanced understanding of social trust resources in the community involved. Unfortunately, however, there is a serious gap in our understandings concerning the distinct characteristics of social trust in Canadian indigenous communities. ...

A framework is proposed as a way to enhance the value of silvicultural effectiveness monitoring (SEM) data and to support regional SEM analyses aimed at improving silvicultural practices and forest management planning models. We outline how the SEM program could be viewed from two broad...

The Intensive Management Science Partnership: NEBIE Plot Network is a stand-scale, multi-agency research project designed to compare the ecological effects of a range of silvicultural treatments in northern temperate and boreal forest regions of Ontario. The NEBIE plot network was established in...

Airborne laser scanning (ALS; LiDAR) data are an increasingly common data source for forest inventories, and approaches integrating ALS data with field plot measurements have become operational in several jurisdictions. As technology continues to evolve, different LiDAR sensors can provide new...

Temperate forest soils are an important sink for methane (CH₄); however, disturbance through forest management and the creation of skid trails may significantly decrease soil's ability to uptake CH₄ or in some cases cause CH₄ emissions. Skid trails might also be expected to show reductions in...