A Silvicultural Guide For The Great Lakes St Lawrence Conifer Forest In Ontario

This guide provides direction to forest managers on maintaining or enhancing natural landscape structure, composition and patterns that provide for the long term health of forest ecosystems in an efficient and effective manner. This volume of the Landscape Guide addresses only the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest region of Ontario. It is intended to make the forest management planning process more efficient and the direction provided by the guide more accessible, not only to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the forest industry but also to the public. Equally as important, this new approach for setting strategic level direction in the forest management plans reflects the most recent scientific understanding of managing forest ecosystems, with the intent of ensuring the conservation of forest biodiversity in the province.--Ministry of Natural Resources website.

"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