. . . . Reports
Boreal Centre External Upcoming

 

 Boreal Centre reports have recently been compiled into a book: Alternative Futures, Alberta's Boreal Forest at the Crossroads.  Individual chapters of the book are available here in pdf format.  To reduce download times the quality of graphics has been reduced, but the files are otherwise identical to the book.  The book, printed in full color, is available for $22.95 at Edmonton bookstores or from the Federation of Alberta Naturalists at 780-427-8124 or on-line at FAN books 

   Part I: The Old Way

    Preface (28 KB)  

   1. Introduction (687 KB)  

   2. History of industrial development (690 KB)  

   3. The Forestry Sector Today (303 KB)  

   4. The Petroleum Sector Today (753 KB)  

   5. Cumulative Impacts (287 KB)  

   Part II: New Ideas

   6. The Natural Disturbance Model (671 KB)  

   7. Protected Areas (582 KB)  

   8. Old-Growth (904 KB)  

   9. Putting it all Together (145 KB)  

Additional Boreal Centre Reports:

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Impacts of In Situ Oil Sands Development on Alberta's Boreal Forest  

Establishing a Protected Area Network in Canada's Boreal Forest: An Assessment of Research Needs     

Maintaining A Natural Fire Regime Within Protected Areas   

Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Land-uses in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: A Modeling Approach      

Whatever Happened to the Alberta Forest Conservation Strategy?     

Wilderness Politics in British Columbia: A 30-Year Review   

External Reports:

The Alberta Forest Conservation Strategy (Alberta Forest Conservation Strategy Steering Committee, 1997)

Alberta Sustainability Trends 2000 (Pembina report - M. Anielski, 2001)

Competing Realities: The Boreal Forest at Risk (Senate Subcommittee report, 1999)

Forest Management in Alberta: Status Report and Recommendations for Policy Change (CPAWS report - R. Schneider and H. Walsh, 2005)

Integrated Resource Management in Alberta: Past, Present and Benchmarks for the Future   (CIRL report - S. Kennett, 2002)  

Long-term (1956-1996) effects of clearcut logging and scarification on forest structure and biota in spruce, mixedwood, and pine communities of west-central Alberta (J. Stelfox et al., 2000)

Relationships Between Stand Age, Stand Structure, and Biodiversity in Aspen Mixedwood Forests in Alberta (ARC report - B. Stelfox et al., 1995)  

Revegetation of Wellsites and Seismic Lines in the Boreal Forest (Arin MacFarlane, 1999)     

Structural Impediments to FSC Certification in Alberta: Overcoming Barriers to Well-Managed Forests  (ENGO report, 2001) 

Sustainable Forest Management and its Major Elements (Alberta Forest Mgmt. Science Council, 1997)

Synopsis of Fire Research in the Boreal Mixedwood Forest (S. Cumming, 2000)

Vegetation response to seismic lines: edge effects and on-line succession (Arin MacFarlane, MSc thesis, 2003)     (2.4MB)