Project Description:
The Northern Hardwoods Research Institute conducts applied research in northern hardwoods to provide the forest sector with knowledge that is required to ensure its growth and sustainability. One of their projects produces a silvicultural guide to hardwood management in the Maritime Provinces, known as the Silviculture Prescription Guide. Their researchers came to Otter Ponds to demonstrate how this guide can be applied in the northern hardwood dominated forests at Otter Ponds. In three locations three different management regimes were suggested: a Uniform Shelterwood Harvest; a Uniform Irregular Shelterwood Harvest; and a Continuous Cover Irregular Shelterwood Harvest. Each of these harvesting prescriptions came with a guide for foresters and forest technicians to lay-out the work in the field and instructions for contractors completing the treatments.
Otter Ponds hired a qualified tree-marker from the Medway Community Forest Cooperative to complete tree marking within each of the three treatment areas. This culminated in a one-day field day for forestry professionals and woodlot owners at Otter Ponds in the fall of 2017 that saw 50+ participants and 15-20 volunteers view the sites and hear from researchers from NHRI describing their Silvicultural Prescription Guide and other services that the research centre provides. Other topics covered were: hardwood log value optimization by Groupe Savoie; applying NSDLF's Forest Ecosystem Classification and Pre-Treatment Assessment; and the success of the Nova Scotia Salmon Association’s decade of lime dosing on the West River Sheet Harbour.
The Northern Hardwoods Research Institute conducts applied research in northern hardwoods to provide the forest sector with knowledge that is required to ensure its growth and sustainability. One of their projects produces a silvicultural guide to hardwood management in the Maritime Provinces, known as the Silviculture Prescription Guide. Their researchers came to Otter Ponds to demonstrate how this guide can be applied in the northern hardwood dominated forests at Otter Ponds. In three locations three different management regimes were suggested: a Uniform Shelterwood Harvest; a Uniform Irregular Shelterwood Harvest; and a Continuous Cover Irregular Shelterwood Harvest. Each of these harvesting prescriptions came with a guide for foresters and forest technicians to lay-out the work in the field and instructions for contractors completing the treatments.
Otter Ponds hired a qualified tree-marker from the Medway Community Forest Cooperative to complete tree marking within each of the three treatment areas. This culminated in a one-day field day for forestry professionals and woodlot owners at Otter Ponds in the fall of 2017 that saw 50+ participants and 15-20 volunteers view the sites and hear from researchers from NHRI describing their Silvicultural Prescription Guide and other services that the research centre provides. Other topics covered were: hardwood log value optimization by Groupe Savoie; applying NSDLF's Forest Ecosystem Classification and Pre-Treatment Assessment; and the success of the Nova Scotia Salmon Association’s decade of lime dosing on the West River Sheet Harbour.
Photo credit: Dan Hutt
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