With decades of population growth in Canada, more and more people are starting to live, work, and play in heavily forested areas. Estimates from the Canadian Forest Service suggest that “approximately 12.3% of the Canadian…
Forestry
Precision forestry; Indigenous forestry
In 2021, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry’s Wildfire Management Branch undertook a one-year directed research initiative with FPInnovations’ Wildfire Operations group to assess the efficacy of five different technologies and their utility in the wildfire domain….
One of the challenges that the forest managers are facing is the lack of precision inventory tools at the operational level. Forest managers do not currently have the tools to efficiently and accurately measure dispersed…
Forest fuel reduction treatments are conducted at a stand level in the wildland–urban interface to reduce the potential for catastrophic loss caused by wildfire. Given the considerable expense of conducting these fuel treatments, fuels managers…
A new report published by FPInnovations, In-Situ Identification of Wood Inhabiting Microorganisms, compares three methods for identifying wood-inhabiting microorganisms. Abstract: To improve the accessibility of genomics for the identification of wood inhabiting microorganisms to FPInnovations’…
Research Information Sharing and Feedback (RISF) activities are offered to FPInnovations’ members to highlight results and solutions from recent research projects. They also present an opportunity to provide feedback on continuing projects to maximize value…
A new report published by FPInnovations, Detection of Phytophthora Pathogens in Wood Products Using Genomics, Part Two, looks at the cause of false positives in control samples of quarantine pathogens on wood products. Abstract: Pathogen…
Montréal, Québec – April 20, 2022 – Groupements forestiers Québec, a powerful force in Québec forestry with its more than 26,000 private forest landowners, and FPInnovations, a private not-for-profit organization that specializes in the creation…
