Pine Stem Rust Management Guidebook

This guide is designed to provide a reference for identifying, detecting, assessing, and treating pine stem rusts in managed forest stands. The major rusts covered in the guide are western gall rust (Endocronartium harknessii), Comandra blister rust (Cronartium comandrae), stalactiform blister rust (C. coleosporoides), sweet fern blister rust (C. comptoniae), and white pine blister rust (C. ribicola). It gives keys to identification and information on rust behaviour and stand dynamics, rust management techniques and treatments, and criteria used for assessing individual trees in a free-growing survey of rust damage. The appendix contains a table indicating stem rust hazard and risk by British Columbia forest region and guidelines for pruning of white pine.

The Forest Practices Code guidebooks help forest resource managers plan, prescribe and implement sound forest practices that comply with the Forest Practices Code. This guidebook assists forest managers in meeting the requirements of the Forest Practices Code with respect to the use of pruning to meet forest health, wildlife and high timber value objectives.

S2White pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola, Fischer) is a virulent and potentially serious disease of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus, L.) Control of this introduced rust has been carried on since about 1910 in the eastern United States. Today, after more than 50 years of control effort, the occurrence of blister rust in this region is gratifyingly infrequent. Because of effective and continuing control programs, blister rust has been brought under control, and is not now a serious threat to pine management in most areas of the East. Yet, control must continue if blister rust is to remain under control in the future.S3.

Provides a background and management tools for forest root disease.

Humans have influenced the landscapes and forests throughout the temperate and boreal zones for millennia. Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests, Second Edition focuses on the negative impact of human activity, and explains the importance of forest restoration as a way to repair habitat, restore forest structure and function, and counteract the lasting effects of humanity. The book offers broad geographic coverage, as well as a combination of review and case study chapters providing social and policy contexts for restoration of specific forest types. This revised edition begins with a historical context for restoration, provides a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between degradation and restoration, and defines terms within that framework. While building on the first edition, it presents the response of restorationists to the current challenges of interpreting scattered science on forest history, stand development, and natural processes. It combines applicable experience designed to improve present and future ecological and social sustainability. Describes restoration in the context of rapid social, economic, environmental, and climate change Looks toward the future, presenting several completely new topics in forest restoration Covers different starting points for restoration, from non-forest to degraded forest Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests, Second Edition aids in the understanding of the diverse cultural and ecological contexts for restoration of temperate and boreal forests, and the creation of a better foundation of documented knowledge to support future and existing restoration decisions.

This study of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) and the effects of a tree disease, pine stem rust, focusses on six locations in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

This guidebook is intended to assist field practitioners in determining forest health issues and the incidence of forest health factors in high-hazard forest ecosystems. The first section describes the attributes of hazard & risk rating and briefly outlines some available hazard & risk rating systems. Section two covers forest development plan-level surveys, and includes procedures for landscape-level forest health factor surveys. Topics covered include aerial overview surveys, classification of damage, map processing, survey for pest incidence, and windthrow risk evaluation. The final section reviews stand-level surveys. Appendices include a glossary, example inventory data & field data forms, and a table of damage agents & associated pest severity ratings.