Forest Resource Management and Science
Project Examples
Forest Stewardship Council
Description: Member of team writing regional certification standards for Ontario boreal forests.
Date: June - July 1999
Client:
World Wildlife Fund Canada
Forest Cull Data Reanalysis
Description: Reanalysis of historical to revise hazard tables based on site and soil factors and assess if there is an "old growth" threshold.
Date: 1998
Client:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario Forest Research
Forest Succession Analysis
Description: Multivariate analysis of vegetation and environment data comparing mature forest conditions and young logging- and fire-origin stands. Technical report summarizing results and conclusions.
Report: Foster, R.F., A.G. Harris, and G.D. Racey. in prep. Northwest Sci. & Technol., Ont. Min. Natur. Resour., Thunder Bay, Ont. TR.
Date: February - September 1997
Client:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Northwest Science and Technology
Biological Response of Boreal Flora to Vegetation Management Alternatives
Description: Conducted uni- and multivariate data analysis to determine the efficacy of brush cutting and Vision herbicide treatments in vegetation control on a jack pine plantation in northwestern Ontario. Analyzed floristics, competing species and crop tree response variables.
Date: January - May 1998
Report: R.F. Foster. 1998. Bending Lake Data Analysis. Unpublished report. 10 pp. + appendices
Client:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Ontario Forest Research Institute
Crop Tree and Competing Vegetation Study
Description: Re-measure crop trees and competing vegetation on vegetation
management alternatives study in northern Ontario.
Date: July - September 1998
Client:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario Forest Research Institute
Hardwood Forest Data Analysis
Description: Undertook multivariate analysis of vegetation and environmental data from hardwood forest types. Developed and described three new vegetation communities for V3 (Other Hardwoods and Mixedwoods). Produced factsheets and suggested revisions for the Forest Ecosystem Classification for northwestern Ontario.
Date: June - July 1996
Client:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Northwest Science and Technology
Growth and Yield Factsheet Production
Description: Production of over 500 OMNR Growth and Yield plot summary sheets from vegetation, mensurational, soil and site data in linked databases using microsoft Access.
Date: February - December 1997
Client:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Northwest Science and Technology
VMAP Grazing Report
Description: Synthesized literature related to use of grazing animals for forest vegetation management and prepared technical report
Report: Foster, R.F. 1998. Grazing animals for forest vegetation management. Northwest Sci. & Technol. Technical note TN-40, in Bell, F.W., M. McLaughlan and J. Kerley (compilers). Vegetation Management Alternatives - A Guide to Opportunities. Ont. Min. Natur. Resour., Thunder Bay, Ont. 10 pp.
Date: 1997
Client:
Wayne Bell
Ontario Forest Research Institute
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources