Le secteur industriel forestier traverse une période difficile due à plusieurs causes, dont le manque appréhendé de bois. Divers organismes gouvernementaux et non gouvernementaux ont trouvé dans la sylviculture intensive et le zonage forestier (TRIADE) une façon de faire face à ce problème. À son tour, la sylviculture intensive doit résoudre certains inconvenient comme l’établissement […]

Isolated instances of toxicity have occurred at AbitibiBowater, a Pulp and Paper industry in Thunder Bay, Ontario. For the past four years (2005-2008) AbitibiBowater Thunder Bay's cooling water has failed Canadian regulatory rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) toxicity limits during the month of April. This project will investigate the potential cause of such rainbow trout toxicity […]

In light of the current crisis in our forests, there has been a general push towards ecosystem management, in which forests are managed for ecological as well as social and economic values. One way to accomplish this may be for management to emulate natural disturbance patterns, thus creating a forest similar to the natural forest. […]