Stand Management, Remediation and Protection
List of Completed Projects
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PROJECT
NUMBER O4-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kenora CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $136,680. |
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Description |
The Project included a release of
suppressed planted seedlings using Vision® applied via back-pack
sprayers and spray tanks mounted on all-terrain vehicles. A total of 350 ha
were successfully treated. The work
was carried out by local contractors.
The final cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $119,029. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 05-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $18,540. for the Project but on
completion of the work none of these funds were expended as the costs for the
Project were paid by the District. |
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Description |
The Project involved marking and tending to
increase the availability of sawlogs in a shorter cutting cycle by converting
even-aged stands to uneven-aged selection harvest stands. Of the 309 ha
scheduled to be marked and tended 200 ha were completed. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 06-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur. In particular, the
shortages of the red and white pine working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $99,047 over a two- year period. |
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Description |
The Project was proposed as a prescribed
burn to be followed by planting of red and white pine. Due to the wildfire situation of 1995 the
burn did not take place. It was therefore necessary to prepare the site
mechanically at a higher cost. The additional
costs were absorbed by the Special Purpose Account. The remainder of the site
preparation and planting will be completed in 1996-97. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $86,713. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 10-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sault Ste. Marie District, Algoma CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber
production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $8,750. |
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Description |
The Project comprised the first thinning of
a 40-year red pine plantation and was intended as a release to allow further
growth. The marking was carried out by MNR staff and the thinning operation
was contracted locally. 38 ha were
successfully completed. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 13-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Minden Forest Management Unit |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur, in particular the white
pine forest unit. |
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Funding |
Approved $18,771. |
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Description |
The original proposal was for a 96.3 ha
prescribed burn to be conducted as site preparation for the subsequent spring
tree plant. Due to the extreme fire conditions in 1995 the prescribed burn
was not possible. The site was
therefore mechanically prepared with hand scalping being done on areas that
could not be mechanically prepared. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 14-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sault Ste. Marie District, Mississauga
CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur, in particular sawlog
suitable material. |
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Funding |
Approved $7,500. |
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Description |
Manual removal of smaller, poor quality
jack pine in high density plantations to release crop trees. Due to the deep snow conditions in the
winter of 1995-96, the Project was extended until May 1996. The Project was
successfully completed with 30 ha being thinned. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER
16-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kirkland Lake District, Timiskaming
CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur particularly for the
production of larger jack pine sawlog and pole material. |
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Funding |
Approved $17,200. |
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Description |
Thirty-seven
hectares of immature jack pine established by aerial seeding of heavy
textured soils in 1984 were manually thinned to a spacing of 2.4 x 2.4
metres. The final cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $14,856. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 17-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Bracebridge CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur particularly for the
production of red pine sawlogs and poles. |
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Funding |
Approved $18,730. |
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Description |
The Project involves the thinning of
plantation grown red pine at a rate of 40 ha per annum. During the first year, due to operator
difficulties, only 13.5 of the projected 40 ha were thinned. The remaining
26.5 ha were carried forward, with the approval of the Committee, to the
remaining two years of the Project. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 18-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Bracebridge CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur by increasing the volume of
high-value added, high quality sawlogs. |
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Funding |
Approved $127,500. |
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Description |
The Project provided compensation to
loggers for the removal of unmerchantable stems during a single tree
selection harvest. Of the projected
2,550 ha 2,337 were successfully treated.
The final cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust $116,855. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 19-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Bracebridge CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur particularly in the tolerant
hardwood sawlogs and veneer. |
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Funding |
Approved $47,222. |
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Description |
The Project is a pre-commercial stand
improvement operation in polewood tolerant hardwood stands scheduled for
single tree selection management specifically killing (axe or chain saw
girdling) the undesirable competing trees to hasten development of the high
quality sawlog and veneer log products on the selected residual trees. At the end of the first year, 69 ha had
been completed. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was 45,755. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 21-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Thunder Bay District, Port Arthur CMU |
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Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur to address the problem of
age class gaps in the conifer wood supply on the unit. |
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Funding |
Approved $50,844. |
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Description |
The Project consisted of the successful
treatment of 40.5 ha of ground herbicide tending and 151.5 ha of aerial
tending on existing conifer plantations. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $44,607. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 22-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District, Bonnechere CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur particularly in the red and
white pine working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $27,064. |
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Description |
The mechanical scarification to work up
soil and clear patches suitable for seed germination and natural regeneration
of red and white pine in uniform shelterwood cuts. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 23-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District, Bonnechere CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur particularly in the red and
white pine working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $76,300. |
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Description |
The Project consisted of manual (chain saw)
tending of planted and natural red and white pine (15-20 years old) to thin
and release quality trees, remove competing inferior and defective tress. 175
ha were successfully treated. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 24-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District, Bonnechere CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber
production where critical shortages occur particularly in the red and white
pine working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $39,455. |
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Description |
The Project was the release of planted and
natural red and white pine regeneration from competing vegetation so that it
could attain optimum growth. One hundred hectares were chemically tended
using the Air blast sprayer with Vision® and 35 ha were tended
using "Ez-ject" capsules and lances injecting Vision®
into the competing trees. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER
25-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR- Kirkland Lake District- Elk Lake CMU;
Elk Lake Community Forest, Grant Lumber Company, and Liskeard Lumber Limited |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur in jack pine in thirty
years. |
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Funding |
Approved $72,000. |
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Description |
The Project consisted of spacing juvenile
aged jack pine plantations to allow for increased diameter growth and reduced
rotation period. 180 ha were pre-commercially thinned. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 26-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District, Mazinaw CMU |
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Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $59,500. |
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Description |
The Project involves the stand improvement
of tolerant hardwood stands by marking and removing low quality
non-merchantable trees to provide improved growing conditions for the
remaining trees. The final cost to the
Forestry Futures Trust was $27,720. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 27-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District, Mazinaw CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur in hardwood and softwood
sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $14,300. |
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Description |
The project consists of the removal of
unmerchantable material in tolerant hardwood and white pine stands plus
pruning selected white pine trees to improve the product quality. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER
28-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District, Mazinaw CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur, in particular, white pine
sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $12,500. |
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Description |
The two part project involved manual
tending of 25.7 ha of white pine plantation (planted 1989) and spot treating
stumps of removed material with herbicides.
The second part of the Project involved the thinning and pruning 7 ha
of 40-year old white pine stand to improve tree growth and quality. The final
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $12,495. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 29-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District, Mazinaw CMU |
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Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur in red oak. |
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Funding |
Approved $4,500. |
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Description |
The Project consisted of a 20 ha controlled
ground fire in a red oak uniform shelterwood cut, eliminating competing
vegetation and allowing natural red oak regeneration to re-establish. The
total project cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $319 because the "B" salaries for fire
personnel were absorbed by the applicant. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER
31-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Georgian Bay CMU |
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Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur in white pine sawlog
material. |
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Funding |
Approved $71,000. |
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Description |
The Project involved the manual release of
330 ha of planted and natural white pine regeneration from competing brush
using brush saws, chain saws, and axes. The total project cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $66,000
because the actual contract cost was lower than estimated. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER
35-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, North Bay District, North Bay CMU |
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Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages exist in particular in tolerant
hardwoods. |
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Funding |
Approved $26,250. |
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Description |
The Project involves conducting an
improvement cut on young tolerant hardwood stands to remove poor quality
material and competitive species. The
Project was not completed as scheduled in 1995-96 and will be completed in
1996-97. No Forestry
Futures Trust funds were spent on this Project. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 41-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District, Bancroft CMU |
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Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages exist in white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $6,000. |
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Description |
The Project was successfully completed with
the release of 25 ha of planted white pine, white spruce and natural red oak
from competing vegetation for a total of $6,000. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 42-1-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District, Bancroft CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages exist particularly in white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $7,200. |
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Description |
The Project consisted of successful manual
tending of competition in a 30 ha white pine plantation for a total of
$7,200. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 50-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
Stone-Consolidated Corporation |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected
by forces of natural depletion in particular wind resulting in blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $4,903,287. |
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Description |
The Project involves the renewal of 10,124
ha of the Pakwash Blowdown through site preparation, planting, aerial
seeding, and tending. The Project
extends from 1994-95 - 1996-97. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $4,838,556. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 51-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi Price Inc., Spruce River Forest |
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Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by forces of natural depletion, i.e., spruce budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $2,379,000. |
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Description |
The Project involves the renewal of
approximately 2,000 ha of budworm salvage cut areas by site preparation and
planting from 1995-96 to 1997-98. All
the approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 52-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
Hearst Forest Management Inc., Hearst
Forest |
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Silvicultural remediation of areas affected
by forces of natural depletion, in particular, spruce budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,336,000. |
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Description |
The Project consists of the renewal of
2,010 ha of budworm infested area that has been salvage harvested. The
renewal work consists of site preparation, tree planting and tending. 1995-96 to 1997-98. Total final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $1,121,000. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 53-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Fort Frances District, Sapawe CMU |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected
by forces of natural depletion, in this case, wind resulting in blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $247,837. |
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Description |
The Project involves the renewal of 200 ha
of blowdown area through site preparation (prescribed burning) and
planting. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $236,306. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 54-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Nipigon District, Nipigon CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected
by forces of natural depletion i.e., spruce budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $365,100. |
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Description |
This Project involves the site preparation
and planting of 480 ha of stands which have been previously salvaged after
the spruce budworm infestation. The
final cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $229,552. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 56-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Nipigon District, Nipigon CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected
by natural forces of depletion i.e., spruce budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $301,000. |
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Description |
The Project provides for renewal of budworm
ravaged stands by two methods: 402 ha will have the balsam fir removed with
the remaining desirable stems spruce, pine, and poplar thinned to 1,600 stems
per ha with mechanical site preparation in lower stocked areas to facilitate
natural seeding with tending in Year Three, if necessary; 402 ha will be site
prepared, aerial chemical and planted.
Extreme fire situation in summer 1995 and the snow depth in winter
1995-96 delayed work progress. The
Project will be extended for an additional year. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $66,135. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 57-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Nipigon District, Nipigon CMU |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected
by forced of natural depletion i.e. spruce budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $394,450. |
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Description |
The project consists of various renewal
treatments (combinations of balsam fir removal, mechanical site preparation,
chemical site preparation, seeding) to secure regeneration on 1,430 ha of
budworm destroyed stands. The final
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was
$66,559. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 59-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Georgian Bay CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in this case jack pine budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $20,400. |
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Description |
The Project involved the aerial seeding of 856 ha of clearcut salvage
areas and the controlled burning of roadside slash piles within the clearcut
areas. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $11,414. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 60-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Thunder Bay District, Thunder Bay CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, spruce budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $192,500. |
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Description |
The Project encompassed the planting of 464.2 ha, mechanical site
preparation of 390 ha, aerial chemical cleaning of 136.5 ha, and the chemical
ground cleaning of 90 ha. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $147,797. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 61-2-R1 |
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Applicant |
J. E. Martel & Sons Lumber Ltd., J. E. Martel Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular, wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $33,500. |
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Description |
The Project involved the aerial chemical release of conifer seedlings
within the burn boundary and survey of the untreated burn areas to identify
future treatment requirements. The final cost for the Project to the Forestry Futures Trust was $28,747. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 66-3-R1 |
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Applicant |
E.B. Eddy Forest Products Limited, Lower Spanish Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture protection of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular, jack pine budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $108,327. |
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Description |
The 1994-95 Project involved the aerial application of Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) to
control an outbreak of jack pine budworm. The Project was successfully
completed on 21,499 ha with a final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust of $108,327. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 67-3-R1 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sudbury District, Lower Spanish Forest, Upper Spanish Forest
Spanish River CMU, Sudbury CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture protection of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular, jack pine budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,200,000. |
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Description |
The 1995-96 aerial spray project successfully treated 51,199 ha with Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) to
protect jack pine stands from a jack pine budworm infestation. The final cost
to the Forestry Futures Trust was
$959,233. |
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ROUND TWO PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 78-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Thunder Bay District, Port Arthur CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in the conifer working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $83,554. |
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Description |
The Project consists of site preparation and planting of conifer to
rehabilitate poor quality, high graded mixed-wood stands back to conifer
working groups and ground and aerial tending to remove competing vegetation
from existing conifer plantations. The
final cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $69,665. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 80-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc., Timiskaming Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in the jack pine working group. |
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Funding |
Approved $14,700. |
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Description |
The Project consists of thinning, using brush saws, of dense 10-20
year old seeded jack pine stem to allow for development of sawlog and
polewood material. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 81-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc., Romeo Malette Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase
timber production where critical shortages occur particularly in the jack
pine working group. |
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Funding |
Approved $12,000. |
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Description: |
The Project consists of chemical thinning
of a juvenile jack pine stand using the Ezject capsule system to promote
increased growth in the stand thus reducing the rotation age and the
anticipated shortfall in the jack pine working group. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $10,000. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 83-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc., Romeo Malette Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber
production where critical shortages occur particularly in the spruce and jack
pine working group. |
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Funding |
Approved $8,300. |
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Description |
The Project consists of chemical thinning
of a juvenile jack pine stand using the Ezject capsule system to promote
increased growth in the stand thus reducing the rotation age and the
anticipated shortfall in the jack pine working group. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $7,100. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 89-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sault Ste. Marie District, Mississaugi CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in the tolerant hardwood sawlogs. |
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Funding |
Approved $299,500. |
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Description |
The Project is a compensation payment for loggers to facilitate the
removal of unmerchantable material during the selection of shelterwood cuts.
The Project was delayed due to the severe winter weather of 1995-96 and will
be extended for an additional year.
The final cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $26,032. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 90-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sault Ste. Marie District, Mississaugi CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in the spruce and pine working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $30,000. |
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Description |
The Project encompasses the tending of 30 - 45 year old conifer
plantations by removing the overstory of competing hardwood trees. The
Project start-up was been delayed due to the severe winter weather of 1995-96
consequently the Project will be extended for an additional year. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $10,780. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 91-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Bracebridge CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where critical
shortages occur particularly in the pine and spruce working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $12,470. |
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Description |
The proposal involves the release of desirable coniferous regeneration
from competing woody vegetation using motorized brush saws. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $11,600. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 92-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Bracebridge CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in the tolerant hardwood working
groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $255,000. |
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Description |
The Project is tolerant hardwood management involving the compensation
of logging contractors for felling or killing tress that are not merchantable
under provincial legislation, which have been marked for removal in stands
being treated using selection silviculture. The removal of the unmerchantable
trees is essential to ensure the proper development of the stand. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $233,790. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 101-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in red pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $6,900. |
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Description |
This Project proposed the first thinning of twenty-three hectares of
red pine plantations. The silviculture work will promote the growth and
development of remaining red pine by removing the undesired competing
vegetation. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $5,508. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 102-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sault Ste. Marie District, Algoma CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in tolerant hardwoods. |
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Funding |
Approved $540,000. |
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Description |
The Project consists of felling or girdling of unmerchantable trees to
attain the silviculture objectives in the application of selection and
shelterwood systems of management in tolerant hardwood forests. The treatment
allows the better quality trees room to grow and provide better opportunities
for natural regeneration. The Project was delayed by a year because of the
severe winter of 1995-96. The final
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust
was $309,300. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 103-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Temagami District, Latchford & Temagami CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur in the pine working groups. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,140,000. |
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Description |
The Project application consisted of the tending (cleaning), site
preparation, and artificial regeneration of pine working groups. Only the
tending portion of the application fell within the mandate of the Forestry Futures Trust. The work
consists of manual tending using brush saws and chemical tending of
regenerated areas. 1996-97 to
1998-99. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $1,134,141. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 104-1-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kemptville District, Lanark CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur particularly in red oak. |
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Funding |
Approved $45,700. |
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Description |
The proposed project encompassed a prescribed burn and manual tending
in areas of red oak regeneration. The treatment reduces the competition to
the desired red oak allowing better growth rate, stem quality, and survival
of seedlings and saplings. The final
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust
was $32,207. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 106-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc., Romeo Malette Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by forces of natural depletion, in particular blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $21,375. |
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Description |
The Project encompasses the regeneration of
a blowdown by planting black spruce seedlings. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $20,175. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 110-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Thunder Bay District, Thunder Bay CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by forces of natural depletion, in particular spruce budworm infestations. |
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Funding |
Approved $58,000. |
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Description |
The objective of this project was to rehabilitate
the forest and reduce further susceptibility to spruce budworm infestations
by providing site prepared ground to enable artificial regeneration by
planting conifer seedlings. The final
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust
was $39,237. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 112-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Fort Frances District |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $ 183,896. |
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Description |
Four separate areas were replanted.
Fire # 61 - 123 ha; Fire # 64 - 30 ha.; Fire # 37 - 70 ha.; Fire # 38
- 2577 ha. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $157,339. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 113-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Stone-Consolidated Corporation, Manitou
Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by forces of natural depletion, in particular blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $75,000. |
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Description |
The Project is the regeneration of a 1995
blowdown that has been salvaged. The renewal work consists of site
preparation (chemical, mechanical), planting of black spruce seedlings, and
aerial chemical tending if required.
The final cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $47,394. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER
115-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Heart Forest Management Inc., Hearst Forest
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by forces of natural depletion, in particular fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $2,176,000. |
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Description |
The Project is the renewal of plantation
burned by wildfire in 1995. The renewal activities consist of tree planting
and aerial tending the resultant plantations to ensure maintenance of the
conifer component in the forest, 1996-97 to 1998-99. The final cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $1,876,000. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 116-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Superior Forest Management Inc., Superior
Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected
by forces of natural depletion, in particular fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $265,640. |
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Description |
The Project encompasses the regeneration of
a wildfire that destroyed areas of young forests (<10 years old). The
renewal work will consist of aerial seeding of black spruce and jack pine
seeding and conducting the follow-up assessment of success. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $234,653. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 117-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Dubreuil Forest Products Limited, Magpie Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $283,176. |
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Description |
The Project proposed the renewal of forest areas
denuded by two large fires of 1995 near Dubreuilville. Although much of the
burned area is expected to regenerate naturally, silviculture efforts are
required to renew plantations destroyed by the fires. A combination of
planting seedlings and aerial seeding will be used. All the approved funding was spent |
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PROJECT NUMBER 118-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
J.E. Martel Lumber Corp., J.E. Martel Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $408,686. |
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Description |
The Project encompasses two treatments, the aerial chemical release of
artificially and naturally regenerated areas within the burned area and
renewal of untreated burned areas. The renewal treatments consist of
mechanical site preparation, planting seedlings, and aerial chemical tending
(if required). The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $253,174. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 119-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Spruce Falls Inc., Gordon Cosens Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $113,069. |
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Description |
The Project objective was to renew areas destroyed by 1995 wildfires,
in particular the burned plantations and areas of successful natural
regeneration. The silviculture work includes planting conifer seedlings and
aerial seeding jack pine and black spruce seed. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $27,699. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 121-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Great West Timber Limited, Black River Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $93,000. |
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Description |
This Project proposed the renewal of areas destroyed by wildfire in
1995. The areas requiring treatment include burned plantations and young
stands which will be planted to ensure renewal of desired conifer
species. The final cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $76,256. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 122-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $20,800. |
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Description |
The Project application proposed the renewal of a 1994 blowdown that
was subsequently salvaged. The
silviculture treatments include mechanical site preparation of the area and
planting white pine seedlings. The
final cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $8,654. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 123-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas effected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $7,750. |
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Description |
The Project proposed the site preparation and planting of red oak
seedlings to ensure the desired species are renewed on the blowdown
area. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $7,250. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 124-2-R2 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc., White River Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion. |
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Funding |
Approved $484,500. |
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Description |
The Project addresses the need to renew areas impacted by natural
depletion and stresses from blowdown, tornado, and insects which occurred in
the area from 1986 to 1991. The
silviculture work includes mechanical site preparation, slash raking, slash
burning, planting, and tending. The
total cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $321,731. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 126-3-R2 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District, Georgian Bay and Sudbury CMU |
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Type |
Silviculture protection of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in particular, jack pine budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $100,000. |
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Description |
This Project included the impact assessment surveys and planning
support to prepare for the 1996 jack pine budworm spray program. The Project
was successful in further defining and reducing the initial number of
hectares estimated for the spray program by approximately two-thirds. |
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ROUND THREE PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER
130-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Red Lake CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, specifically conifer sawlogs. Silviculture
remediation of areas affected by forces of natural depletion, specifically
spruce budworm infestations. |
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Funding |
Approved $639,000. |
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Description |
This Project will thin 300 ha of 20-25 year-old fire-origin jack pine
each year over a three-year period to even out the wood flow created by
timber losses to wildfire and blowdown.
A second component of this project will mechanically site prepare and
plant black and white spruce on 100 ha per year of budworm-damaged fir stands
growing on productive silty clay soils.
Work is expected to generate 3,000 person days of employment. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $100,765. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 131-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kenora CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase conifer timber production where
critical shortages occur due to large burns in the 1980's. |
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Funding |
Approved $421,538. |
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Description |
This Project consists of two components: 1) the fall application of herbicide
(Vision7) using backpack sprayers and fixed-wing aircraft at rates
of 1.7 kg a.i. per ha to control grass
and shrub competition on silty clay soils, and 2) the pre-commercial spacing
of fire-origin jack pine and aspen using motor/manual brush saws. Project supervisors are to be trained
under the native (First Nations) education and training program for Kenora
District. A total area of 549 ha and
698 ha, respectively will be treated.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $219,074. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 134-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kirkland Lake District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space pre-commercial jack pine to meet
predicted shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $199,290. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the pre-commercial thinning of 500 ha of
young jack pine in the Elk Lake, Plonski, Watabeag and Timiskaming CMUs over
the next three years, under the supervision of the Elk Lake Community Forest
in partnership with the Township of James, Kirkland Lake District, OMNR and
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc..
Brush saws will be used to thin the stands to variable densities. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
136-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
Dubreuil Forest Products Limited |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space jack pine to accelerate diameter
growth to meet the predicted shortages in sawlog material from the 21-60
year-old age classes. |
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Funding |
Approved $78,750. |
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Description |
This Project consists of thinning 126 ha of young jack pine in
scattered blocks in Acton, Challener and St. Julien Twps. in the Magpie Forest to accelerate the
development of saw timber. Suppressed,
diseased and damaged trees will be removed by chain saw and crop trees spaced
to a density of 1,000 to 1,200 trees per ha. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $52,305. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
138-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, in particular, the release of white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $140,655. |
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Description |
This Project consists of releasing suppressed natural white pine
regeneration by applying a chemical ground spray on 30 ha in Matawatchan
Township., 100 ha in Head Township and 145 ha in Clara Township., Pembroke
Crown Management Unit, Pembroke District.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $107,966. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
139-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, in particular the white pine forest unit. |
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Funding |
Approved $28,500. |
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Description |
This Project involves the aerial spraying of Vision7 on 540 ha, which was
clearcut between 1987-89 and which was site prepared with a prescribed burn
in 1989, in Matawatchan, Head and Clara Twps. in Pembroke CMU to control
competition of white pine seedlings managed under the shelterwood
system. Application rates of 2.6 kg
per ha were applied from mid-August to October to encourage accelerated pine
growth. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $22,543. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
140-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, in particular, shortages of red and white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $202,650. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the thinning and cleaning of 531 ha of red
pine plantations and tending of natural or planted white pine in Fraser,
Clara, Head, and McKay Twps. in the Pembroke CMU to release crop trees. Tending with chainsaws, brushsaws, pruning
shears, and EZject lances with Vision7
capsules was contracted out from mid-June 1996 through March 1997. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $ 147,282. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
141-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, specifically scarification for natural
regeneration. |
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Funding |
Approved $125,800. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanical scarification on 540 ha in Head,
Burns, and McKay Twps. in white pine managed under the shelterwood system to
favour white pine regeneration.
Locally available site preparation equipment was used (e.g., Leno
patch scarifier, passive TTS disc trencher, rock rake and straight blades)
were used during September and October 1996.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $70,963. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
143-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Mississagi CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space juvenile jack pine to meet a
predicted short- and medium-term shortfall in softwood supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $23,250. |
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Description |
This Project was designed to accelerate the diameter growth of 15 to
20 -year old jack pine by manually thinning high density plantations. Smaller diameter, poor quality jack pine
will be removed from July to November 1996, by a crew of cutters to promote
earlier development of quality sawlogs from the remaining stems. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $19,662. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
146-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Minden CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. In
particular, the shortages of quality white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $80,400. |
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Description |
This Project involves funding a pruning contract in white pine on 268
ha in Minden CMU over two winter seasons with work completed by March
1998. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was
$79,129. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 147-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages in quality hardwoods occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $346,060. |
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Description |
This Project funds tolerant hardwood stand improvement to remove low
quality material and increase the supply of high quality hardwoods on 1,573
ha per year over two years in stands managed under the selection system
Bancroft Township in a tolerant hardwood forest managed to increase the
quality (sawlog/veneer) of future harvests.
This represents the funding of contract felling for two years of a
three-year Project. The total cost to
the Forestry Futures Trust was
$248,854. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
148-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft CMU |
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Type |
Stand Improvement: red and white pine sustainability. |
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Funding |
Approved $325,060. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanical site preparation using Young=s
teeth mounted on D-6 bulldozers followed by planting bare root nursery stock
and container white and red pine in clear cuts and pine shelterwood
cuts. This represents funding two
years of the three-year Project to increase pine regeneration in the Bancroft
CMU. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
149-1-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet medium-term shortfalls in wood
supply, specifically by releasing plantation white and red pine and white
spruce. |
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Funding |
Approved $192,600. |
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Description |
This Project consists of cutting competitive species within white
pine, red pine and white spruce plantations using sandvik and brush saws and
the application of chemical ground spray, where needed. The area treated covers 602 ha. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
153-2-R3 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc., Trout Lake Forest |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by natural depletion by
the 1995 Red Lake Fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $217,100. |
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Description |
This Project consists of aerially seeding jack pine seed at a rate of
25 m seeds per ha on 168 ha of burned 8-11 year-old plantations and 8 ha of
fire break line in the Ear Lake area of the Trout Lake Forest, Red Lake
District. Funds will also pay for the
purchase and installation of 39 m shelter cones with both black spruce and
jack pine seed. A second part of the
Project consists of funding the purchasing, hand scalping and planting of
jack pine and black spruce containerized seedlings on 511 ha in this
area. This will contribute to the
future wood supply for the Dryden Mill.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $ 182,937. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
154-2-R3 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc., Brightsand Forest |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $432,000. |
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Description |
This Project will rapidly regenerate 2,500 ha of relatively
inaccessible 15 year-old regenerated cutover that burned in 1995 in the
Brightsand FMA south and east of Sparkling Lake. Jack pine and black spruce will be aerially
seeded on 2,245 ha of burned regeneration and standing timber reserves from
January to July 1996. A second
component of the Project involves planting jack pine and black spruce
seedlings on 140 ha of recently scarified cutover. Herbicide tending will occur in the third
year, if needed. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $212,000. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
156-2-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Nipigon CMU |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by natural depletion
through spruce budworm infestation and natural decline through aging. |
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Funding |
Approved $788,300. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the identification, harvesting and trampling
of 300 ha of inoperable budworm killed and overmature poplar in 1995-96,
leaving 209 ha for natural spruce regeneration and planting 97 ha. Approximately 600 ha will be tramped in
the second year, together with cone collection and extraction, and mechanical
site preparation of 680 ha. The
project proposes to cut and tramp 484 ha, mechanically site prepare 109 ha,
and plant spruce and pine in Year Three.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $447,420. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
157-2-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Nipigon CMU |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by natural depletion
through budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $606,500. |
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Description |
This Project was originally submitted as a two stage burn over two
years as Project #107-2-R2. It was not
implemented due to fire management concerns with containing the large
burns. This revised Project consists
of selecting smaller areas for burning, and applying mechanical SIP (TTS disc
trencher or Brake) or chemical herbicide (Velpar) followed by planting jack
pine and black spruce container stock at densities of 2,000 stems per ha in
year two. The Project will also fund
cone collection to replace seeds used for seedling production. The contingency plan is to aerially seed
jack pine and black spruce during the spring of 1997 on a portion of the
area. Total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $176,974. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
160-2-R3 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc. Romeo Malette Forest |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by natural depletion
through fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $16,672. |
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Description |
This Project consists of planting black spruce containers at a density
of 1,500 trees per ha on 65 ha of burned plantation in Loveland Township, Timmins
District. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $16,174. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 163-3-R3 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sudbury and Parry Sound District |
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Type |
Protection of the forest from natural depletions by insect
defoliation, in this case to protect white pine from depletion from the jack
pine budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $990,378. |
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Description |
This Project involves the aerial application of Bacillus thuringiensis Foray 48B at a rate of 30 BIUs per ha at a
volume of 2.3 L per ha to control jack pine budworm defoliating white pine on
25,636 ha in the Georgian Bay-Sudbury areas.
This treatment will provide 80 percent to 90 percent protection of the
foliage of white pine within the spray area and thus reduce mortality and
volume loss. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $571,590. |
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ROUND FOUR PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER
172-1-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically evenaged tending of red pine
plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $34,650. |
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Description |
This Project consists of tending 99 ha of dense red
pine plantations in Ross, Wilberforce, Petawawa, McKay, Richards, Burns and
Clara township over the fall of 1997 and winter of 1998 to remove competing
species, to maintain stand vigour and health and to improve diameter
growth. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $32,597. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
173-1-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $99,241. |
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Description |
This Project consists of scarification for natural white pine
regeneration in stands managed under the uniform shelterwood system. Treatment will occur on 426 ha in Clara,
Fraser, McKay, Maria, Wylie and Rolph Townships in September and October 1997
where stands were harvested before the age of the New Business relationship.
The total cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $98,084. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
174-1-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist. |
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Funding |
Approved $100,492. |
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Description |
This Project involves the ground spraying of Vision7 at
rates of 16 kg a.i. per ha between mid-August and October 1997 on 388 ha in
McKay, Clara and Maria Townships to release natural white pine
regeneration. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $82,385. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
175-1-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist. |
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Funding |
Approved $74,238. |
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Description |
This Project involves the aerial application of Vision7 (glyphosate) over 593 ha
in Clara and Rolph Townships in September and October 1997 at rates of 1.1 kg
a.i. per ha. This treatment will release planted white
pine seedlings from intense competition from poplar in 8 to 10 year-old
cutovers. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $61,684. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
177-1-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kemptville District - Lanark CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist, specifically red oak. |
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Funding |
Approved $2,050. |
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Description |
This Project proposes a spring burn in Dalhousie Township to reduce
competition in a 24 ha oak forest.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $1,657. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
181-2-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Sioux Lookout CMU, Lac Seul Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $221,722. |
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Description |
This Project consists of regenerating 803.6 ha of 0-20 year-old
spruce/jack pine plantations in the Lac Seul MU, Sioux Lookout CMU that
burned in the summer of 1996. The
shallow areas and sites with poor operability, comprising 609 ha, will be aerially
seeded to jack pine in mid-February.
An area of 27 ha will be mechanically site prepared with a TTS-power
trencher to reduce duff thickness and planted with container stock (63 ha of
jack pine, 69 ha of black spruce, and 16 ha of white spruce container stock
and 46 ha of black spruce bareroot stock).
This will contribute to maintaining the wood supply for the McKenzie
Forest Products Inc. sawmill in Hudson.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $156,060. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 182-2-R4 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Fort Frances District |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces
of natural depletion, in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $23,700. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanically site preparing
(using drags) 125 ha of salvage cutover from a spring (June) burned jack
pine/black spruce and poplar forest and aerially seeding to jack pine. The area treated includes 288 ha of salvage
cutover and 163 ha of burned regenerated cutovers. This Project area lies within the wood
supply area for Stone-Consolidated Corporation mill in Fort Frances. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $15,400. |
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ROUND FIVE PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER
200-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Thunder Bay District - Lakehead Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $150,000. |
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Description |
The Project consists of various renewal treatments (550 ha of
mechanical site preparation, 49 ha of fall aerial and ground herbicide applications
of Vision? at rates of 1.7 kg per ha ) on scattered conifer
plantations near Thunder Bay. This
will provide 131 person-days of direct employment and contribute to future
sawlog material for local mills (Buchanan Forest Products Ltd., Great-West Timber
Ltd. and Northern Wood Preservers Inc.).
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $136,465. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
201-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc. - Dog River-Matawin Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space mid-rotation jack pine to meet a
short-term shortfall in conifer supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $750,000. |
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Description |
This Project was originally submitted as Project #170-1-R4. The Project consists of a jointly funded
venture (FFTF and Avenor Woodlands NW) to thin a jack pine/black spruce
forest in the Dog River-Matawin Forest using chain-saw and skid operations
and small mechanical harvesters in order to hold mature stands longer. The small diameter timber removed is
chipped for distribution to the Thunder Bay mill. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $ 500,000. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
202-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Price Inc. - Iroquois Falls South |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, specifically spacing through pre-commercial
thinning of young jack pine to meet a projected shortage of sawlog materials. |
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Funding |
Approved $38,670. |
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Description |
This Project consists of pre-commercial thinning 130 ha of 10 to
20-year-old overstocked jack pine stands in Harker Township in the Iroquois
Falls South Company Management Unit in the Kirkland Lake District. The Project was proposed by the Wahgoshig
First Nations in cooperation with Abitibi Price Inc., Malette Inc. and the
Ministry of Natural Resources.
Clearing saws will be used to reduce stand density to promote the
growth of larger jack pine sawlog and pole material within a shorter time
span. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
203-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Nipissing Forest Resource Management Inc. Nipissing Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist, specifically thinning mid-rotation red pine to
provide sawlogs. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,000,0000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of thinning overstocked under 60 year-old red
pine plantations over three years with brush saws and power saws to provide
future sawlog material for local sawmills in Mattawa, Sturgeon Falls and
Monetville and to provide employment for three local First Nation communities
over a 10 month period. The total cost
to the Forestry Futures Trust was
$926,418. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
205-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Shining Tree Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist, specifically pre-commercial thinning of jack pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $420,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of a pre-commercial thinning of 1,050 ha of jack
pine ranging in age from 9 to 19 years in the Shining Tree CMU, Timmins
District by the Shining Tree Forest Inc. in partnership with the Town of
Gogama and the Mattagami First Nation.
Thinning will reduce stand densities from as high as 19,100 stems ha
to 2,000 to 2,500 stems per ha and provide local employment for 20
individuals. All approved funding was
spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
206-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Superior Forest Management Ltd.
Superior Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management for the restoration of white and red pine
through plantation establishment, where critical shortages of red and white
pine occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $32,065. |
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Description |
This three year Project consists of site preparing 50 ha with a
straight-blade bulldozer followed by growing and planting white pine (75
percent) and red pine (25 percent) to a density of 1,300 trees per ha in
Bernier and Cassidy Twps. The Project
will be funded jointly by Forestry
Futures Trust funds, Pineal Lake Lumber and Superior Forest
Management. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $31,393. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
207-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc./MNR - Kirkland Lake District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist, specifically pre-commercial thinning of jack pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $6,400. |
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Description |
This Project consists of pre-commercial thinning of 16 ha of seeded
jack pine ranging in age from 10 and 20 years in Marter Township, Timiskaming
Forest Management Unit. Motor-manual
thinning will space crop trees to 2.4 x 2.4 m and provide local summer and
fall employment. All approved funding
was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
208-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft District - Mazinaw CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber
production where critical shortages exist, specifically red oak. |
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Funding |
Approved $60,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of marking for removal invading and undesirable
tolerant hardwood stems in and around oak crop trees on 750 ha over three
years scattered throughout the Mazinaw
CMU. Costs of
layout-compliance, marking and felling will be shared by the applicant. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $12,504. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
209-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft District - Mazinaw CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management in terms of tolerant hardwood stand
improvement to address the continuous shortage of high quality hardwood
timber. |
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Funding |
Approved $153,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of tolerant hardwood stand improvement on 510 ha
per year over three years (total 1,530 ha) to increase the percentage of high
quality sawlog/veneer material. The
SPA will provide funding for the layout tree marking and compliance
monitoring. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $56,558. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
211-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Bancroft District - Minden Forest CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages exist, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $14,200. |
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Description |
This Project consists of hand cleaning 40 ha of poplar overtopping a 6
to 7 year-old white pine bareroot stock in the Salmon Lake Area of Cavendish
Township. The proposal is to
"hack and bend"the young poplar and other non-crop species during
the fall of 1997, using sandvicks, to discourage resprouting, to release crop
trees and to provide wildlife habitat.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $11,230. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
213-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically chemical ground cleaning to
favour white pine regeneration to meet a well documented short to long term
shortfall of white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $90,645. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the ground application of
herbicide (Vision7) on 254 ha in the Morrow Lake area and 97 ha in
the Anna Lake area in Matawatchan Township to reduce the vigor of vegetation
competing with white pine managed under the shelterwood system. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $37,440. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
215-1-R5 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand mange to increase timber production where critical shortages
exist in white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $12,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanically site preparing 53 ha in the Twin
Lakes, Brougham, and Bagot Townships during the fall of 1997. The objective is to prepare receptive
sites of backlog area under a white pine shelterwood system. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $8,250. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
216-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Nipigon District - Steel River CMU |
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Type |
Remediation of natural disaster, specifically post-fire renewal. |
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Funding |
Approved $178,214. |
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Description |
This Project consists of purchasing and late-summer planting of
615,000 black spruce to replace young plantations burned during the summer of
1996 which will provide direct employment for 30 planters for 17 days. Because the fire burned hot and fast, site
preparation is not needed if planting occurs immediately. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $168,542. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
217-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc. - Black Sturgeon Forest |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, specifically plantation replacement following fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,515,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of a plan to grow and plant 5,500 M jack pine
seedlings and aerially seed 3,000 ha on sites burned, followed by tending
three years after plantation establishment.
All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
218-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc. - Dog River/Matawin Forest |
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Type |
Remediation of natural disaster, specifically post-fire renewal of
young plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $309,500. |
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Description |
This Project consists of replanting 400 ha of plantation destroyed by
fire in 1996, over two years (1996 and 1997) followed by herbicide tending in
1998. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
219-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. -Lake Nipigon Forest |
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Type |
Remediation of natural disaster, specifically post-fire renewal of
burned young plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $397,430. |
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Description |
This Project will take place on the Patio Lake burn of the Lake
Nipigon Forest FMA#500900 within an area burned during the 1996 summer fire
season. It consists of mechanically
site preparing 550 ha followed by stock production, purchase, and planting
134 ha of black spruce and 412 ha of jack pine followed by aerial tending of
499 ha and manual tending of 48 ha.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $45,877. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
220-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. - Armstrong Forest |
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Type |
Remediation of natural disaster, specifically post-fire renewal of
burned plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $192,760. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the renewal of 166 ha of jack pine and 175 ha
of black spruce forest in the Whitesand and Linklater Lake burn, Armstrong
Forest, Thunder Bay District. This
Project includes stock production and purchase, planting 613,800 trees,
aerially tending 323 ha and manual tending of 18 ha. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $94,873. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
221-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
Kimberly-Clark Inc. and MNR - Geraldton Forest |
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Type |
Remediation of natural disaster, specifically post-fire young
plantation renewal. |
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Funding |
Approved $182,461. |
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Description |
This Project consists of purchasing and contract planting black spruce
and jack pine to re-establish a 311 ha five year-old jack pine and black
spruce plantation that burned in 1996.
This plantation will be established in the Spade Road burn northwest
of Geraldton on the Geraldton Forest Resource License. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
222-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
Tolko Industries Ltd. - Kenora CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $182,800. |
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Description |
This application consisted of two Projects: the first, to pre-commercially space 457 ha
of fire- origin jack pine and aspen stands using brushsaws; and the second to
convert 350 ha of budworm killed balsam fir stands by tramping and blading
350 ha followed by planting to black and white spruce. Only the intensive stand management
component is funded for this fiscal year.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $162,066. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
223-2-R5 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by forces of natural
depletion, specifically the renewal of a large area of blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $13,070. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanically site preparing a 19 ha salvaged
blowdown area of mixed poplar and white pine working groups to prepare
receptive white and red planting beds and to control early competition for
planted white and red pine in Brougham Township. Stock purchase and planting will occur in
the second year. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $7,199. |
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ROUND SIX PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER
230-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management Inc.
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Type |
Intensive tolerant hardwood stand management to meet a critical future
timber supply, specifically for quality hardwood sawlog and veneer quality timber. |
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Funding |
Approved $435,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of felling or girdling unmerchantable trees
(undersize or cull) on 5,800 ha (2,900 ha/year) in forests being managed
under the selection or shelterwood management systems. This will space and improve the quality of
tolerant hardwood stands, increasing the percentage of quality sawlog
material to meet a short-term critical wood supply shortage. It will also
provide better opportunities for natural regeneration to meet future demands.
Algoma CMU. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $281,175. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
233-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Parry Sound District,
Bracebridge MU. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand management to release of natural red pine and
white spruce to meet a critical future timber supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $19,500. |
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Description |
This Project will release 97.5 ha of planted and natural red pine and
white spruce from competing woody vegetation using motorized brush saws
between April 1998 and March 1999. The
Project will be carried out in partnership with the Westwind SFL in the Bracebridge
CMU. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
234-1-R6 |
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Applicant` |
MNR, Kemptville District |
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Type |
Intensive management of red oak to reduce the level of competition to
meet a critical red oak wood supply shortage. |
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Funding |
Approved $5,600. |
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Description |
This Project involves the manual tending of a 14 ha tolerant hardwood
stand managed under the shelterwood system to reduce hardwood competition in
order to promote the survival, growth and development of red oak. This Project will provide employment for
local silvicultural contractors and logging contractors. Year One of the
Project involved opening up the forest canopy at the proponents expense.
Lanark CMU. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $5,577. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
235-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to promote red oak through a prescribed
burn to meet a future critical shortage in red oak. |
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Funding |
Approved $14,400. |
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Description |
This Project involves carrying out a prescribed burn (Schweigert’s
Creek red oak prescribed burn) in a 33 ha 80 to 120 year-old mixed red
oak/hard maple/beech stand managed under the uniform shelterwood system. This
will create an appropriate seedbed for the natural regeneration of red oak,
will promote the resprouting of naturally and artificially established red
oak regeneration and will reduce competing understorey vegetation. This will increase the volume production of
quality oak saw timber and veneer to meet local demand. This Project was
previously approved for completion in 1996-97, however weather restrictions
prevented Project completion. Pembroke CMU.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $ 3,487. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
236-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management; aerial herbicide tending to meet a future
critical wood shortage. |
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Funding |
Approved $199,068. |
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Description |
This Project is a three year Project with the first year funded by Forestry Futures Trust, and the
follow-up assessment funded by the proponent.
An aerial application of Vision® (glyphosate) and/or
Release (triclopyr) herbicide will be applied aerially at rates between 2.0
to 4.0 L/ha (1.1 and 1.4 kg a.i./ha). to control hardwood competition and
thus release white and red pine seedlings on a 1,029 ha plantation. Pembroke
CMU. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $181,630. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
237-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management - manual tending to meet a future critical
wood shortage, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $42,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the manual cleaning (brushsaw) of 97 ha of
white pine plantations. It will also
provide training to local forest industry employees prior to their acceptance
of SFL responsibilities and will provide employment to local forest
contractors. Pembroke CMU. All
approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
238-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management (chemical ground
cleaning) to meet a future critical conifer wood supply shortage. |
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Funding |
Approved $211,500. |
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Description |
This single year Project consists of ground spraying 712 ha of white pine, red pine and spruce
plantations with glyphosate (Vision®) herbicide at a rate of 1.1
and 1.4 kg a.i./ha with a skidder mounted mist blower. This will release the conifer plantations
from hardwood competition. It will
also provide training to the local forest industry prior to their acceptance
of SFL responsibilities and it will provide employment to local forest
contractors. Pembroke CMU. The total
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust
was $140,174. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
239-1-R6 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Pembroke District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet a future critical wood supply
shortage, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $461,200. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the mechanical scarification of 1,281 ha of
understorey white pine managed under the uniform shelterwood system. This will create a favourable seedbed for
white pine for natural regeneration.
It will also provide local employment and training for the local
forest industry prior to their acceptance of SFL responsibilities. Pembroke CMU. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $182,082. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
241-2-R6 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc. |
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Type |
Remediation following a fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $70,000 over three years ($8,000 for 1997-98; $36,000 for
1998-99; $26,000 for 1999-00). |
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Description |
This Project consists of the mechanical scarification (trencher) of 46
ha of burned plantation (Baker Lake Fire, Timmins #2), followed by planting
in Year Two and tending in Year Three. This will contribute to the future
conifer wood supply for the local mills and provide employment for local
contractors. Romeo Malette Forest. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $36,130. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
242-2-R6 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc. |
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Type |
Remediation following a fire, specifically establishing conifer
plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,068,889 over two years ($444,395 for 1998-99; $624,494 for
1999-00). |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanically scarifying (using an angle
blade) sites burned by the Sewell Twp. Fire, Timmins #24 followed by planting
200 ha of jack pine and 985 ha of
spruce. Romeo Malette Forest. The
total cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $480,766. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
243-2-R6 |
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Applicant |
Kimberly-Clark Inc., Longlac |
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Type |
Remediation following a fire, specifically re-establishing conifer
plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $243,752. |
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Description |
This Project is a single year Project to purchase stock and replant
439 ha of 7 year-old plantations in the Kenogami Forest that were burned by a
1996 wildfire (the Longjon Road burn refill).
This Project would replant these areas with white spruce, black
spruce, and jack pine seedlings at a density of 1545 trees/ha on sites
pre-treated with a chemical herbicide for competition control. Kenogami Forest. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $231,336. |
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ROUND SEVEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER
250-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Thunder Bay and Greenmantle Forest Inc. Lakehead Forest |
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Type |
Lakehead Forest Conifer rehabilitation and tending: Silviculture
remediation of areas affected by forces of natural depletion, specifically
spruce budworm infestation. |
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Funding |
Approved $159,404. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanical site preparation of 778 ha in 1998-99 for planting white, red and jack
pine and white and black spruce in 1999-2000; and ground herbicide
application for red pine and jack pine plantation release on 26 ha in
1998-99. This Project will contribute
to the re-establishment of commercial conifer stands in areas of poor quality
hardwood forests and budworm damaged balsam fir stands in areas close to
Thunder Bay to assist in alleviating future conifer wood volume shortfalls.
It is expected to create 100 person-days of employment for one or more SIP
contractors and 22 days for ground herbicide application. This will also
facilitate 1,000 person-days of employment for tree planting, funded through
the SPA. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $144,152. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 251-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
MNR, Kenora CMU and Tolko Industries Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management (chemical ground cleaning) to increase
conifer (spruce and jack pine) timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $118,640. |
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Description |
This Project consists of chemical ground cleaning of 269 ha of spruce
and red pine plantations; the fall application of herbicide (Vision®) using a spray unit
attached to an all-terrain vehicle and backpack sprayers at rates of 1.7 kg
a.i. per ha to control grass and shrub competition on silty clay soils. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $94,938. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 252-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Tolko Industries Inc. and Kenora MNR |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space pre-commercial jack pine to meet
predicted shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $108,000. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the pre-commercial spacing of 30 ha of red
pine and 180 ha of fire origin jack pine and poplar using brush saws. Project supervisors are to be trained under
the native (First Nations) education and training program for Kenora
District. All approved funding was
spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 253-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., Fort Frances Highrock Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically juvenile spacing of jack pine
to accelerate diameter growth to meet the predicted shortages in sawlog
material from the 21-60 year-old age classes. |
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Funding |
Approved $321,342 over three years. ($105,000 for 1998-99; $107,100
for 1999-00 and $109,242 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of thinning 900 ha of 17 year-old jack pine with
brush saws over 3 years. The thinning
occured in the Cold Lake and Manion Road areas. It will help meet long term wood shortages
in the jack pine and poplar forest units in the areas destroyed by fire in
1981. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
255-2-R7 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc. Brightsand Forest: Harddog Replant Project |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, specifically scarification for natural
regeneration. |
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Funding |
Approved $393,590. |
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Description |
This Project consists of replanting 954 ha of previously treated
cutover burnt in the spring of 1996 to jack pine. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
258-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc., Timiskaming Forest |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space juvenile jack pine to meet a
predicted short- and medium-term shortfall in softwood supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $183,050 over three
years ($52,500 for 1998-99; $60,550 for 1999-00 and $70,000 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of manually thinning 523 ha of 10 to 16 year-old
jack pine plantations down to 1,900 stems/ha. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
260-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd. Thessalon; Mississagi M.U. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant hardwood management to increase timber production
of sawlog and veneer quality wood where critical shortages in quality
hardwoods occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $125,700. |
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Description |
This Project funds tolerant hardwood stand improvement to remove low
quality material and increase the supply of high quality hardwoods on 1,676
ha over two years in stands managed under the shelterwood and selection
system to increase the quality (sawlog/veneer) of future harvests. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $79,950. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
261-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Malette Inc., Timmins; Romeo Malette Forest |
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Type |
Stand improvement to increase the supply of jack pine in the medium
and long term. |
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Funding |
Approved $42,075. |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanically thinning 99 ha of 10-15 year-old
jack pine down to densities of 1,700 to 2,000. The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $19,975. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
262-2-R7 |
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Applicant |
Superior Forest Management Ltd.; Superior Forest |
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Type |
Remediation to thin plantations re-established
following a 1995 burn to meet future conifer wood supply shortages. |
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Funding |
Approved $389,092. |
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Description |
Aerial spraying of 1,630 ha of young, densely stocked post-burn jack
pine and black spruce plantations (aerial seed origin) in 1998 and 1999. Tree planting on 575 ha of burned
plantation to jack pine container stock.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $337,202. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
263-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Superior Forest Management Ltd., Chapleau |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet medium- term shortfalls in supply,
specifically by releasing plantation white and red pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $41,115. |
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Description |
This Project consists of restoring 50 ha of white and red pine by
blading or raking rich sites in 1998 and planting a 75:25 percent mix of
white pine red pine, respectively, in the spring of 1999 at densities of
1,300 trees/ha. Tending will be
carried out through SPA funding. The
total cost to the Forestry Futures
Trust was $34,789. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
264-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft District, Minden CMU |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet a shortage of conifer, specifically
white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $5,250. |
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Description |
Site preparation will be carried out using a root rake on 58 ha (15 ha
net) in Galway Township, Peterborough county to prepare it for planting white
pine. This St. Croix Creek plant will contribute to re-establishing white
pine in this area. The total cost to
the Forestry Futures Trust was $2,792. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 266-2-R7 |
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Applicant |
Parry Sound District/Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically quality hardwoods. |
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Funding |
Approved $312,000 divided equally over
three years (1998-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of the pre-commercial
stand improvement in tolerant hardwoods managed under the selection
silvicultural system on the Bracebridge and Georgian Bay CMU to increase the
quality and quantity of volume for future harvests. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 267-1-R7 |
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Applicant |
Parry Sound
District/Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically quality conifer sawlogs and poles. |
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Funding |
Approved $18,000, divided equally over
three years (1998-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of providing
financial incentives to commercial operators harvesting economically marginal
first and second thinnings of red, white and white spruce plantations on the
Bracebridge and Georgian Bay CMU. This will accelerate the supply of quality
sawlog and pole materials to the local mills. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 268-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
Parry Sound District/Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type
|
Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically quality hardwoods. |
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Funding |
Approved $45,000 divided equally over three
years (1998-01). |
|
Description |
To carry out pre-commercial stand
improvement in tolerant hardwood stands that are not commercially viable due
to the age of the stand, size of stems, and location of the stand to
reasonable access. Bracebridge and Georgian Bay. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 269-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
Bancroft District/Mazinaw CMU. |
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Type
|
Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supplies shortages, specifically white and red pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $896,760 divided equally over
three years (1998-01). |
|
Description |
To mechanically site prepare with Young’s
teeth, a root rake or a straight blade on a dozer 846 ha in the Mazinaw CMU over three years to re-establish white
and red pine in mixed-wood stands.
Plant pine container and/or bare root stock at 500 stems/ha. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 270-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
Bancroft District/Mazinaw CMU |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically tolerant hardwoods. |
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Funding |
Approved
$395,550 divided equally over three years (1998-2001). |
|
Description |
This Project consists of thinning
mid-rotation tolerant hardwood stands by felling or girdling 1,438 ha of
young pole wood stands to assist in the continuous supply of quality forest products from Mazinaw CMU over a three year period. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 271-1-R7 |
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Applicant
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Parry Sound District, Georgian Bay CMU |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
conifer timber supply shortages. |
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Funding |
Approved $399,400 over two years ($200,000
for 1999-99; $199,400 for 1999-00). |
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Description |
This Project involves the release of
desirable coniferous regeneration (white pine, red pine, white spruce,
hemlock) from tree, shrub and herbaceous competition in white/red pine
uniform shelterwood seeding cut stands on 1,997 ha. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 272-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
Bancroft District/Bancroft CMU |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $738,556 divided equally over
three years (1998-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of establishing red
and white pine through site preparation (Young=s teeth), planting, tending
and assessment on selected intolerant and mixedwood cutovers with 267
ha/year. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 273-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
Bancroft District/Minden CMU |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically quality softwoods. |
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Funding |
Approved $16,710. |
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Description |
To hand plant 40,000 white pine and 4,000
white spruce on 21.7 ha by a local contractor. The proposed Project is for stand
conversion from low-grade poplar mixedwoods to white pine. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 274-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
MNR Kemptville Lanark CMU |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $4,550. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the manual tending
of white pine plantations to enhance the survival and growth of white pine
crop trees. The total
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust
was
$4,225. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 275-1-R7 |
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Applicant
|
Kemptville District, Lanark CMU |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically high value quality red oak. |
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Funding |
Approved $8,525 over three years ($2,000 for 1998-99; $6,525 for 1999-00,
carried over to 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of carrying out a
prescribed burn to promote red oak regeneration in Lavant Township. This will
release red oak from other hardwood competition, promote red oak resprouting,
and enhance white-tailed deer habitat. This Project provides training and
local employment to forest industry partners. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 276-1-R7 |
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Applicant
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Kemptville District, Lanark CMU. |
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Type
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Intensive stand management to meet future
timber supply shortages, specifically white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $43,644 over two years ($17,700
for 1988-99 and $25,944 for 2000-01) |
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Description |
This Project consists of mechanically
scarifying (Bracke, Leno or Young’s Teeth) 12 ha in Perch Lake, 12 ha in
Raycroft Lake, 15 ha along the California Road and 20 ha in the Darling Long
Lake areas to promote the natural regeneration of white pine. This will be followed by herbicide
application (ground application of glyphosate (Vision®) at a rate of 1.5 and
2.0 kg a.i. /ha on 47 ha to control competing hardwood prior to planting.
These sites will be planted with white pine container and/or bare root
planting stock in Year Two to supplement the natural regeneration. This Project will provide training and
local employment. It will also
contribute to the knowledge transfer from MNR to the private sector which
will be managing the area under an SFL |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 277-2-R7 |
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Applicant |
Donohue Quno Inc., Nagagami Forest |
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Type |
To satisfactorily regenerate depleted area
to acceptable standards. |
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Funding |
Approved $272,000. |
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Description |
Area was site prepared with D8 tractors
with Angle Blades to remove 80 percent of heavy slash and 30 to 50 percent of
duff layer from the site. Total of 270
ha was treated. Work was carried out
in the winter on frozen ground in order to reduce potential site damage. The total
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust
was
$85,793. |
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ROUND
EIGHT PROJECTS |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 282-2-R8 |
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Applicant |
Avenor Inc. |
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Type
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Silvicultural remediation of areas affected
by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $100,726. |
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Description
|
This Project consists of aerially seeding
3,794 ha of area burned in the Caribou Forest and the English River Forest in
1996. The fire burned many young jack pine plantations established following
an earlier harvest. Regeneration will be primarily to jack pine with 118 ha
seeded to black spruce. The estimated
direct impact of this investment would be an increase of 393,000 cu m
compared to not treating these areas.
Benefits included direct employment for cone collection and seed
extraction, aerial seeding, and planning.
The total cost to the Forestry
Futures Trust was $92,026. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 283-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
McChesney Lumber of E.B. Eddy Forest
Products Inc. |
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Type
|
Intensive stand management through the
ground application of herbicide to release black and white spruce from severe
understory competition to meet a future critical conifer wood shortage. |
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Funding |
Approved
$296,125 divided equally over two years (1999-00 and 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of the ground
application of herbicide at rates of 1.1 kg of active ingredient per ha, to
release of 1,584 ha of 3 to 7 year-old white and black spruce on the Pineland
Forest. This Project will provide a 10 percent increase in the short term
sustainable wood supply, create 10 to 20 local jobs in an economically
depressed region, and provide employment for the citizens of Foleyet, Gogama
and local First Nations communities. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 284-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
J.E. Martel Lumber Corp. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet a future
critical wood shortage, specifically the pre-commercial thinning. |
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Funding |
Approved $200,000 over two years ($40,000 for 1999-00; $160,000 for
2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of digitizing
historical regeneration information to select over-stocked conifer stands and
subsequent thinning of these stands to accelerate crop tree growth. Over 500 ha of over-stocked 10 to 30
year-old jack pine stands will be manually thinned to densities of 1,200 to
1,500 trees per ha over a two-year period.
This will reduce the age to harvest to address the predicted future
conifer wood supply shortage. This Project will also provide employment for a
forestry co-op student, local First Nations citizens and other local forestry
workers. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 285-2-R8 |
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Applicant |
Donohue Quno Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected
by the forces of natural depletion, in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,768,685 over three years ($559,699 for 1999-00; $692,297 for
2000-01; $516,689 for 2001-02). |
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PROJECT NUMBER 292-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft-Minden Forest Co. Inc. |
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Type |
Union Lake Pine conversion. |
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Funding |
Approved $80,730 over three years ($7,250 for 1998-99; $32,100 for
1999-00; $41,380 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
The Union Lake Pine Conversion Project consists of intensively
treating 142 ha of productive mixedwood sites. The intensive stand management package
includes cutting, tramping, mechanical site preparation using blading or
rakes, and planting white pine nursery stock.
Future tending of the white pine plantations will be carried out to
control competition as needed. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 293-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft-Minden Forest Co. Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically tolerant hardwood stand
improvement to meet the demand for quality hardwood sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $519,090 divided equally over three years (1999-02). |
|
Description |
This Project consists of the removal of poor quality hardwoods on
4,719 ha over three years to release and space good quality trees on
productive hardwood sites. This will
help develop a forest where 43 percent of the volume is in high quality
sawlog and veneer trees. This Project provides both short-term and future
local employment to forestry crews and local sawlog operators. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 294-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically the aerial application of
herbicides for stand tending. |
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Funding |
Approved $240,454 for 1999-00. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the release of planted red pine, white pine,
and spruce from hardwood competition on 1271 ha. The aerial application of Vision ®(Glyphosate)
and/or Release (triclopyr) herbicide at rates of 3.0 to 5.0 L per ha
(1.1 and 1.8 kg a.i per ha) will
effectively reduce the growth of competing beaked hazel, soft maple, willow,
alder and pin cherry. This will
provide local employment for on-the ground support. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 295-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically the release of planted white
pine from hardwood competition. |
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Funding |
Approved $163,500 for 1999-00. |
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Description |
This Project consists of chemically tending 600 ha of established
white pine regeneration suppressed by hardwood competition. Tending will be carried out with the ground
application of herbicide (Vision®), applied at a rate between 1.1.
and 1.4 kg a.i. per ha. This will
reduce the growth of competing hardwoods in white pine forests managed under
the uniform shelterwood harvest system.
This provides local employment for forestry workers and will
contribute to increasing the supply of white pine in the future. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 296-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically pre-commercial thinning and
spacing pole-sized white pine, tolerant hardwood and red pine plantations to
increase the supply of sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $107,900. |
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Description |
This Project consists of the manual spacing of three red pine and
white pine plantations and one tolerant hardwood forest of fire origin on 332
ha in four areas: White Lake, Little Bark Bay, Forest Lea Ski Trail and
Quadeville/Eneas Creek. This will reduce the time to rotation for crop trees
and increase the percentage of sawlog material in the stands providing
products for the local mills. The
total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $71,210. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 297-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically manually cleaning pine
plantations and natural pine regeneration from competition using
brushsaws. |
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Funding |
Approved $177,900. |
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Description |
This Project consists of manually cleaning 402 ha of pine plantations
and natural pine regeneration from competition using brushsaws within part of
a deer yard, stream buffers and adjacent to a cottage subdivision. This will
release white pine crop trees, increasing their chance of survival and
growth, and contribute to the future supply of pine sawlog material. This
Project provides local employment to the forestry sector, stimulates the
growth of browse in the deer yard, and provides a demonstration area for
public education. The total cost to
the Forestry Futures Trust was $123,716. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 298-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to meet shortfalls in wood supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $440,730 over three years ($92,710 for 1999-00; $219,215 for
2000-01 and $128,805 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This three year Project consists of mechanical site preparation and
tree planting in the understory of white pine forests managed under the
Uniform Shelterwood System. Planting
will be carried out at densities of 1,500 trees per ha. This activity will provide planted seedlings
with several years of favourable growing conditions. The overall objective is to restore white
pine ecosystems in the Ottawa Valley to provide a sustainable flow of white
pine sawlog material. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 299-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management, specifically the conversion of off-site
hardwoods to white pine and spruce. |
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Funding |
Approved $112,800 over three years ($18,000 for 1999-00; $56,400 for 2000-01; $38,400 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of the conversion of poor quality hardwood
forests to white pine and spruce by harvesting, mechanical site preparation,
and planting white spruce and white pine on 60 ha. This will help meet the
projected shortage of white pine and white spruce supply in the future, while
providing short-term local employment. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 300-2-R8 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by the forces of natural
depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $4,950. |
|
Description |
This Project consists of planting red and white pine in 1999 at
densities of 1,500 to 1,900 trees per ha on dry sites burned by the McKay
Creek Wildfire. This will contribute to future sawlog pine supply to local
mills and provide local employment.
The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $3,474. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 301-1-R8 |
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Applicant |
North Bay District and Temagami First Nation. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase sawlog supply by
pre-commercially thinning red, white, and jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $720,000 divided equally over three years (1999-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of manually thinning 462 ha of jack pine, red
pine, and white pine in the Temagami area and tending 362 ha of pine
plantations. This will provide
employment for the local First Nation community for an 8 to 9 month period
over three years. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 302-2-R8 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by the forces of natural
depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $161,196. |
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Description |
This Project planted 362.9 ha of burned forest to jack pine and black
spruce. A total of 618,274 trees were
planted to increase future conifer wood supply to the local mill in White
River. Future plantation tending will
be carried out by the company. All
approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 304-2-R8
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. Fort William Division |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by the forces of natural
depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $260,120. |
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Description |
This Project involves replanting 2 to 3 year-old plantations consumed
by the May 1998 Thunder Bay Fire 21.
These young plantations in the McConnel Creek area were planted
following a salvage harvest of balsam fir/spruce forests depleted in the
spruce budworm epidemic between 1985 and 1994. A total of 456,069 black spruce and 14,100
white pine were planted on 270 ha at a density of 1,739 trees per ha. This Project contributed to the future
conifer wood supply and provided short-term local employment to tree planters
and the associated tree production industry.
The total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $204,611. |
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ROUND NINE
PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 305-1-R9 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management through the aerial and ground application
of herbicide to release black and white spruce from severe understory
competition to meet a future critical conifer wood shortage. |
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Funding |
Approved $170,955. |
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Description |
This Project consisted of aerial and ground application of herbicide
on 1,647.5 ha and 270 ha, respectively, to release suppressed black spruce,
white spruce, jack pine and red pine plantations from competitive hardwood
competition. This is part of an
overall program to reestablish productive commercial conifer forests close to
Thunder Bay to assist in alleviating future conifer wood volume shortfalls. This Project created approximately 135
person-days of local employment. The
total cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $161,703. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 306-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas affected by the forces of natural
depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $385,025 over two years
($380,796 for 1999-00 and $4,229 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project involves growing and planting jack pine and black spruce
in the Penny Lake and Spruce River Road areas of the Black Sturgeon Forest
that were destroyed by forest fire during the summer of 1998. Planting at
densities of 1,800 trees per ha will create productive plantations that will
contribute to future timber supply.
This Project provides employment to local silvicultural workers
including residents of the Whitesand First Nation. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 307-1-R9 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur, in particular, manually spacing jack pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $106,671 over three years ($52,500 for 1999-00; $53,550 for
2000-01; $54,621 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project
consists of manually spacing juvenile jack pine (age 14 to 16 years of age)
in the Turtle River Road area east of Fort Francis to reduce stand densities
from 7,000 to 13,000 to 9,700 stems per ha.
This would provide employment over three years and contribute to the
critical future wood supply shortages in the Fort Francis Forest (Highrock
Forest). |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 308-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $5,040. |
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Description |
This Project involves the
aerial application of (Vision®) on 58 ha to control hardwood
competition in red pine, jack pine, and black spruce plantations. These plantations were established in 1996
and 1997 in the Korpl Blowdown area of the Highrock Forest. Tending will accelerate conifer growth and
shorten the time to harvest, thereby addressing the predicted future shortage
of conifer sawlog material. All
approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 310-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Spruce Falls Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $80,850 over two
years ($48,888 for 1999-00 and $31,962 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
planting 83 ha of burned forests to jack pine and black spruce at a density
of 1,800 trees per ha and mechanically site preparing and aerial seeding 239
ha at densities of 50,000 jack pine seeds per ha. This Project provides local employment for
the forestry sector. It will also
contribute to meet the predicted shortage of conifer supply in the Gordon
Cosens Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 311-1-R9 |
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Applicant |
E.B. Eddy Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management through pre-commercial thinning of jack pine on the Spanish Forest
with Wikwemikong First Nation. |
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Funding |
Approved $129,375 over
two years. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
spacing over-stocked, high density, aerially seeded, juvenile jack pine
plantations to maximum diameter growth over a shortened rotation. Seven hundred and forty-five hectares of
selected plantations will be thinned down to densities between 1,700 and
2,100 stems/hectare. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 312-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $69,550 for
1999-00. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
mechanically site preparing (blading) 200 ha of backlog area in the Sapawe
Forest, near Fort Francis in 1999. The
company would subsequently plant 200,000 white pine, jack pine, red pine and
white spruce seedlings the following spring at their own expense. This will
provide local employment for the forestry sector, and establish a plantation
that will contribute to the documented future conifer wood supply shortages. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 313-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $70,470. |
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Description |
This Project consisted of
aerial seeding 1,475 ha of young conifer plantations that burned in a 1996
wildlife in the Brightsand Forest. This will contribute to the local conifer
wood supply in the future and provided short-term local employment. The total
cost to the Forestry Futures Trust was $68,661. |
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PROJECT NUMBER
314-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Buchanan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $788,377 over
two years ($436,919 for 1999-00 and
$351,458 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
re-establishing jack pine and black spruce plantations in the Big Pic Forest,
burned in the 1998 Wawa Fire #22 where insufficient conifer seed sources
occur. This Project has three components: growing and planting nursery stock
on 400 ha, mechanically site preparing and planting stock on 800 ha, and
aerial seeding and tending 1,196 ha. This will contribute to future conifer
wood supply, while providing local employment. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 315-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest
Alliance Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $2,132,525 over
three years ($615,235 for 1999-00;
$774,500 for 2000-01; $742,790 for
2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
chemically and mechanically site preparing, purchasing and planting 4,536,000
jack pine and 504,000 black spruce on burned plantations and recently
salvaged burned forests in the Watabeag Lake area southeast of Timmins in the
Timiskaming Forest. The tree-plant will generate 7.4 person-years of
employment, 0.5 person-years for site preparation and 0.25 person-years for
tending while establishing a future conifer wood supply. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 316-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to space juvenile jack pine to meet a predicted short- and
medium-term shortfall in softwood supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,050,000. |
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Description
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Single-grip harvesters
and brush saws were used to space 16 to 35 year-old jack pine stands on 3,229
ha in the Dog River-Matawin Forest to
reduce stand densities to 2,200 trees per ha on productive sites close to the
mill. Thirty-two person-years of extra employment will be created. All approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 318-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Spruce Falls Inc. |
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Type |
Silviculture remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this spruce budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,016,734 over
two years ($700,382 for 1999-00 and $316,352 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
a budworm salvage harvest of mixed forests growing on silty soils, followed
by the application of heavy mechanical site preparation (D-8 bulldozer with a
straight or shear blade) to create 100 m wide planting strips. Each of these strips will be planted to
black and white spruce at densities of 1,750 trees per ha. This Project is predicted to contribute an
additional 99,000 cu m of conifer to the future wood supply. This Project will also provide
approximately 255 person-days of work for bulldozer operators and
supervision, 2,149 person-days for tree planting and multiplier jobs created
by supporting activities including the accommodation, fuel and food
industries. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 319-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $24,473. |
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Description |
The Batiste Addition Burn
Refill consisted of the stock purchase and planting of 62,911 black spruce
and 27,675 white spruce seedlings on 52 ha in the Kenogami Forest near
Longlac. This will re-establish a 1996 conifer plantation and a 1992
plantation that burned during the summer of 1998. This provided employment for youth and
local silvicultural workers. All
approved funding was spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 320-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $923,200. |
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Description |
This Project consisted of
regenerating 1,513 ha on the Black Sturgeon Forest that had been destroyed or
severely damaged by fire. Specifically
the treatment consists of salvaging any merchantable volume left on the site,
site preparing, producing black spruce and jack pine seedling stock and
planting 1,998,000 black spruce, 200,000 jack pine and 200,000 red pine. Tending will be carried out in the future,
as needed. All approved funding was
spent. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 321-1-R9 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to manually thin young jack pine stands. |
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Funding |
Approved $540,000 over
three years ($120,000 for 1999-00; $180,000 for 2000-01; $240,000 for
2001-02). |
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Description
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This Project consists of
spacing juvenile jack pine in the Whiskey Lake area. Spacing will accelerate the growth of crop
trees by reducing competition and increase the resources available for crop
tree growth. This will provide immediate employment for the local First
Nations community and meet the future demand for conifer sawlog material. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 322-2-R9 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $858,821. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
re-establishing conifer crop trees in cutover areas on the White River that
were destroyed by the Crocker Lake fire.
The work consists of site preparation (340 ha), planting (2.3 mill),
aerial seeding (350 ha), and aerial tending (1,140 ha). By intensively managing these areas the
Company expects that maximum pine and spruce yields can be realized thereby
helping to reduce long-term wood supply shortages on the White River Forest. |
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ROUND TEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 325-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted critical
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $99,000 over two
years ($49,500 in 2000-01; $49,500 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
using brushsaws to manually spacing dense 13 year-old post-fire juvenile jack
pine from 36,000 stems per ha to approximately 2,400 trees per ha. This will increase the growth rate of
crop. The Project, located 46 and 75
km north of Red Lake, will provide short-term training and employment for
local silvicultural workers. Red Lake
Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 326-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive forest
management to establish plantations on sites prepared through prescribed
burning to meet predicted future shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $30,000 for one
year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
cutting, tramping, and burning a 300 ha peninsula on Little Vermillion
Lake. This site was harvested for
mining timbers in the 1930's and 1940's and subsequently subjected to spruce
budworm infestations. This will reduce
the local fire hazard and bring this site back into the productive
forest. Red Lake Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 327-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to space suppressed conifer to meet predicted shortfalls in jack
pine sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $280,000 over
three years ($40,000 for 1999-00; $140,000 for 2000-01; $100,000 for
2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually spacing 700 ha of dense 8 to 15 year-old jack pine in the Gull Bay
and Current River areas to stand densities of 2,000 to 2,500 trees per ha to
increase crop tree growth rates. This
Project will provide training and employment for Gull Bay First Nation and
will increase future jack pine sawlog volume from 85 to 234 cu m per ha at
rotation. Black Sturgeon Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 328-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed conifer to meet predicted shortfalls in jack
pine wood supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $47,600 for one
year (1999-00). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually spacing 136 ha of dense (9,700 stems/ha) 12 to 13 year-old jack pine
down to 2,000 to 2,500 stems per ha in order to increase crop tree growth
rates. This Hutton Road Project, located
50 km southeast of Atikokan, will provide short-term employment for the Seine
River First Nations and adjacent communities.
Flanders Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 329-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed conifer to meet predicted shortfalls in sawlog
material. |
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Funding |
Approved $114,450 for one
year (1999-00). |
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Description |
The Esker/Bullmoose Stand
Enhancement Project consists of manually spacing 327 ha of 10 to 11 year-old
aerially (or bracke) seeded jack pine plantations on the Manion Road system
located 150 km east of Fort Frances.
This will increase crop tree growth rates, thereby reducing the age to
rotation. Brush saws will be used to
reduce densities from 7,000 to 18,000 per ha to 1,500 to 1,800 stems per
ha. Highrock Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 330-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. and Whitesand
Forestry |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $777,918 over
two years ($494,661 for 2000-01;
$283,257 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
regenerating two stands adjacent to Holland Lake, northwest of Whitesand Lake
and a block north of the Pikitigushi Road west of Rapid Lake, which were
burned by 1996 fires (Fire THU #74 - Whitesands Lake Fire). Specifically, 818 ha will be mechanically
site prepared and planted to jack pine and spruce. These plantations will
also be manually or aerially tended in the second year. This Project will provide employment for
the Whitesand First Nations residents and will provide work in the local
Jellien Nursery in Armstrong. The Project will also help stabilize the
conifer wood supplies in this area. Armstrong Forest MU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 331-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $193,660 over
three years ($83,250 for 1999-00; $89,550 for 2000-01 and $20,860 for
2001-02). |
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Description |
This Krug Lake/Nipigon 10
plantation replant Project is located in the Cameron Falls area. It consists of replanting plantations
established in 1989 that were burned during the 1999 fire season. It includes
the production of 425,000 black spruce and 25,000 jack pine seedlings in 1999
and the subsequent planting of seedlings on 227 ha in the spring of 2000. This Project is a cooperative Project with
the Rocky Bay First Nation. It provides immediate training and local
employment and contributes to future critical conifer wood supplies. Black
Sturgeon Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 332-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by 1999 fires. |
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Funding |
Approved $238,270 over
three years ($175,000 for 1999-00; $27,720 for 2000-01; $35,550 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
growing and planting 560,000 black spruce and jack pine on 343 ha with
subsequent tending of established plantations in the Church Road area. The
objective is to replace advanced regeneration destroyed by fire (Nipigon 10)
during May 1999. This Project provides
employment for Dorion residents and contributes to sustaining future critical
conifer wood supplies in the area.
Black Sturgeon Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 333-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $305,520 ($263,831 for 1999-00; $41,689 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
The Paper Eskimo
pre-treatment Project consists of re-establishing selected jack pine and
black spruce mixed conifer stands in the Brightsand Forest that were burned
in June 1998. Approximately 845 ha
will be seeded (by air) and 488 ha planted at densities of 1,200 to 1,700
seedlings per ha. This will provide local employment in the short-term and
will contribute to the long-term conifer supply for local mills. Brightsand
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 334-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi–Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $223,286 over
two years ($63,000 for 2000-01,
$160,286 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
The regeneration of the
Calm Lake-Steep Rock blowdown, located 10 to 20 km northwest of Atikokan near
Miranda and Righteye Lakes, consists of re-establishing forests that were
blown down in late June 1999. The
Project consists of mechanically site preparing 360 ha with a bracke patch
scarifier, planting 227 ha of jack pine and spruce container stock, seeding
126 ha of jack pine and chemically tending 226 ha with Vision®
herbicide. This will help meet projected future shortfalls in jack pine and
spruce. Highrock Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 339-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,579,700 over
two years ($78,500 for 1999-00;
$1,501,200 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
re-establishing conifer plantations on 3,000 ha burned in the 1999 Chapleau
Fire #01-99. This site is located within 35 km of Chapleau. Post-fire competition will be controlled
through the application of Vision® herbicide (5 L diluted in 15 L
of water) followed by planting jack pine seedlings at 1,800 stems per ha.
This would provide short-term employment for silvicultural workers and
contribute to the long-term conifer wood supply for local mills. Superior
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 340-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $38,850 over
three years ($8,600 for 1999-00;
$27,600 for 2000-01; $2,650 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
regenerating upland conifer stands in Block 751 damaged by a severe November
1997 windstorm. Following the salvage
harvest, 40 ha will be mechanically site prepared and planted with more
competitive, fungi-innoculated black
spruce seedlings to accelerate early growth on these nutrient-rich moist
sites. This Project will contribute to
the future conifer wood supply to help bridge the wood supply gaps on the
Unit. White River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 341-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Shiningtree Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed conifer to meet predicted shortfalls in sawlog
material. |
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Funding |
Approved $550,000 over
three years ($192,500 each for 2000-01 and 2001-02; $165,000 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
pre-commercially thinning 1,000 ha of 11-18 year-old aerially seeded jack
pine stand in the Shiningtree SFL from 4,500 - 20,000 stems per ha to 1,400 -
1,900 stems per ha to accelerate crop tree growth and to reduce time to
rotation. This will also provide
short-term employment for silvicultural workers and increase future wood
supplies to the mill. Shiningtreee
Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 342-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood stand management to meet a critical future timber supply,
specifically for quality hardwood sawlog and veneer quality timber. |
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Funding |
Approved $216,000 divided
equally over three years (2000-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
felling unmerchantable trees (undersize or cull) and thinning crop trees in
even-aged hardwood stands in forests managed under the selection and
shelterwood systems. This will space
and improve the quality of tolerant hardwood stands, thereby increasing the
percentage of quality hardwood sawlog and veneer material to meet a critical
wood supply shortage. Northshore
Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 343-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood/white pine/red pine stand management to meet a critical future
timber supply, specifically for hardwood sawlog and veneer quality timber. |
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Funding |
Approved $133,839 divided
equally over 3 years (1999-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
felling unmerchantable material in white pine - tolerant hardwood forests in
the seeding-stage cut of stands managed under uniform shelterwood
systems. This activity provides the
necessary light and seedbed conditions needed for the successful renewal of
valuable hardwood species, specifically yellow birch, red oak, and white
pine. French Severn Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 344-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to establish red and white pine forests to meet critical wood
supply shortfalls. |
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Funding |
Approved $207,500 ($70,000 for 2000-01 and $137,500 for
2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
establishing red and white pine plantations of 250 ha of ‘not-satisfactorily
regenerated’ areas in Renfrew County.
Mechanical site preparation will be carried out in the understory of
pine stands harvested as seeding cuts under the uniform shelterwood and clear-cut with seed tree systems. Red and white pine seedlings will be
planted at densities of 1,500 trees per ha the following year. This work will provide short-term
employment and contribute to pine sawlog shortages. Ottawa Valley Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 345-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed pine, oak, and hemlock to meet predicted
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $106,250 for one
year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually cleaning (using brush saws and chain saws) young plantation and
naturally regenerating red and white pine, red oak and hemlock stands in
Pembroke District. These stands were
harvested between 1985 and 1993 under the clear-cut and uniform shelterwood
silvicultural systems. They include
sites left as spray buffers during previous aerial spray and ground spray
programs. This Project will release
crop trees and contribute to the future critical supplies of pine and red
oak. In the short term it will provide
silvicultural training and employment for the local work force including
opportunities for two local First Nations communities. Ottawa Valley Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 346-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft-Minden Forest
Co. Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood stand management to meet a critical future timber supply,
specifically for quality hardwood sawlog and veneer quality timber. |
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Funding |
Approved $63,000 divided
equally over three years (1999-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
felling unmerchantable trees (undersize or cull) and thinning crop trees in
even-aged hardwood stands on 1,050 ha (350 ha per year) in forests managed
under the selection system. This will
space and improve the quality of tolerant hardwood stands, increasing the
percentage of quality sawlog material to meet a short-term critical wood
supply shortage. Minden MU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 347-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Algonquin Forest
Authority |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $149,758 over two years ($145,407 for
1999-00; $4,351 for 2000-01). |
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Description |
Downbursts in July 1999
damaged over 1,000 ha of timber on the east side of Algonquin Park. This
Project consists of mechanically site preparing (straight blade) 630 ha of
the wind-damaged sites and subsequent planting of red, white and jack pine on
these prime sites. This will provide
local employment for silvicultural workers, a market for seedlings produced
by the Makwa Community Development Corporation of the Algonquins of Golden
Lake First Nation, and contribute to future conifer wood supplies. Algonquin
Park. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 348-1-R10 |
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Applicant |
MNR North Bay/Grant
Forest Products Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed conifer to meet predicted shortfalls in sawlog
material. |
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Funding |
Approved $372,600 divided
equally over three years (2000-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
tending white pine, red pine, jack pine and white spruce plantations to
increase crop tree growth through spacing.
In the short-term this will provide local training and employment in
silvicultural work. The faster growth
will contribute to meeting predicted pine wood supply shortages. Temagami CMU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 349-2-R10 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by spruce budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $426,460 over two years ($100,358 for
2000-01; $326,102 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
the conversion of 597 ha of budworm depleted stands in the Wabigoon Forest
south of Dryden through a salvage harvest, mechanical scarification with
power disc trencher, planting jack pine, red pine and black spruce followed
by chemical and manual cleaning. This will bring this forest back into
production to meet critical shortfalls in conifer wood supplies. Wabigoon
Forest. |
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ROUND ELEVEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 350-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management, specifically to establish plantations to increase timber
production where critical shortages occur, in particular shortages of red and
white pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $125,318 for one year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
two components: 1) To mechanically scarify
(TTS disc trencher or bracke) 800 ha of cutover in preparation for
planting red pine, jack pine and spruce seedlings in the spring of 2001, and
2) The early fall ground application of herbicide (Vision®) at
concentrations of 2 to 3 percent
herbicide solution per ha to release 111 ha of suppressed spruce, jack pine
and red pine plantations, including buffer areas excluded from an aerial
spray program (Project #305-1-R9). This work, adjacent to Thunder Bay and
Nipigon will increase conifer yields by 134,838 cu m plus additional wood
from future commercial thinnings over the next 20 to 40 years. It will also
provide 130 work-days for local contractors. Planting will by done by the
company. Lakehead Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 351-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
pre-commercial thinning of jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $84,744 for one year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
moto-manually tending 132 ha of spruce, red pine and jack pine plantations
established in the early- to mid-1980's and spacing 132 ha of dense jack pine
(6,000 stems per ha) plantations that were damaged during a November 1998 ice
storm down to an average spacing of 2,500 stems per ha. This Project will
provide local employment and contribute to Projected shortfall for conifer to
mills in Atikokan and Fort Frances.
Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 352-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Intensive stand management
to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the pre-commercial
thinning of jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $200,880 for one
year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists
of manually spacing 600 ha of dense
(6,000 to 15,000 stems per ha) 9 to 15
year-old jack pine mixedwood plantations to densities of 1,500 to 1,800 stems
per ha in order to increase the rate of growth of crop trees. This will help
meet projected critical shortfalls in jack pine, red pine, and spruce sawlog
supply and will provide local employment to both Aboriginal, Metis, and other
local contractors. Highrock Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 353-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
pre-commercial thinning of young jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $30,780 for one year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists
of manually spacing 90 ha of dense
(6,000 to 12,000 stems per ha) of 14 to 16 year-old Site Class 2 jack pine
plantations to 1,400 to 1,800 stems per ha in order to increase the rate of
growth of crop trees. The Project, located 20 km south-east of Atikokan, will
provide local employment for silvicultural workers and will contribute to
future critical pine wood supply for the local mills. Fort Frances/Flanders
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 354-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
pre-commercial thinning of young jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $59,580 over two
years ($35,640 for 2000-01; $23,940
for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists
of manually spacing 170 ha of dense
(7,000 to 13,000 stems per ha) 14 year-old Site Class 2 jack pine over two
years to increase the rate of growth of crop trees to meet projected critical
shortfalls in conifer supply. The Project, located 50 km southwest of
Atikokan, will provide local employment for silvicultural workers, including
First Nation communities from the Lac La Croix and Seine River areas, and
will contribute to future critical wood supplies for the local mills in Fort
Frances, Barwick and Sapawe. Fort Frances/Flanders Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 355-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by spruce budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $126,000 for
three years ($15,000 for 2000-01; $61,500 for 2001-02; $49,500 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
harvesting, windrowing, mechanically scarifying and planting black and white
spruce on budworm depleted mixedwood forests growing on nutrient-rich soils
in the Tomato Lake area, 30 km from Red Lake.
This stand reclamation Project will reduce the local fire hazard,
provide local employment to silvicultural contractors, and contribute to
local conifer shortfalls. Red Lake
Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 356-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
pre-commercial thinning of young jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $651,700 over three years ($170,000 for
2000-01; $216,500 for 2001-02; $265,200 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually spacing 1,500 ha of dense (5,000 to 10,000 stems per ha) aerially seeded 10 to 20 year-old Site
Class 1 and 2 jack pine stands, growing on deep, well-drained sands, over
three years. This will increase the rate of growth of crop trees to meet
projected critical shortfalls in conifer supply on the unit. The Project will
provide training and employment for the local Pic Mobert First Nation
residents and contribute to the future wood supply for the White River
sawmill. Projected increases in sawlog volume are 93,000 cu m. White River
Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 357-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically to establish
red and white pine plantations in mixedwood forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $113,700 over three years ($27,675 for 2000-01;
$58,995 for 2001-02; $27,030 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
mechanical site preparation (straight blade) of 100 ha to establish planting
corridors in mixedwood stands to establish red and white pine at a density of
1,500 stems per ha. Subsequent planting and follow-up tending will help keep
these seedlings free from competition in the early years. This Project will
provide local silvicultural employment and will contribute to the critical
shortage of white and red pine on the unit.
Superior Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 358-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Dubreuil Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the aerial
tending of post-fire re-established conifer plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $29,825 for one
year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
the aerial application of Vision® herbicide at a rate of 5 L of
product per ha to release of 546 ha of jack pine regeneration from competing
vegetation. These plantations were
established following a 1995 wildfire (Project #117-2-R2). This Project will
provide a projected 140 cu m per ha of pine sawlogs within 60 years,
contributing to the softwood supply to the Dubreuilville sawmill. Magpie
Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 359-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the stand
improvement in tolerant hardwood stands. |
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Funding |
Approved $660,150 divided
equally over three years (2000-03). |
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Description |
This Project supplements
logging costs in low quality, diseased, and declining hardwood stands in the
Algoma Forest to pay for the removal of unmerchantable stems in stands
managed under the selection and shelterwood systems. This culling and spacing program will
increase the growth rate of crop trees and improve the overall quality of the
stands, thereby increasing the percentage of sawlog and veneer quality
hardwood supply to local mills in Sault Ste. Marie and Thessalon. Algoma
Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 361-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
The Vermillion Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive management of
red and white pine forests, specifically the establishing of red pine
plantations and the release of established white pine-red pine-white pine plantations
to meet conifer wood supply shortages. |
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Funding |
Approved $240,160 over
three years ($128,160 for 2000-01; $40,000 for 2001-02; $72,000 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
two components: 1) Mechanical and chemical site preparation followed by
planting 360,000 red pine seedlings (at 1,800 trees per ha) on 200 ha of
intolerant hardwood sites in Drury and Trill Townships near the western boundary of the Sudbury Forest, and 2) The release of established white
pine-red pine-white spruce plantations in Waldie Township by girdling
non-crop trees on 182 ha with EXJECT capsules (Release® herbicide)
and ground spraying 108 ha with herbicide. This Project will provide
silvicultural employment for local First Nations. Sudbury Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 362-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Nipissing Forest Resource
Management Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically spacing 15
to 30 year-old red pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $183,150 for one year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This one year Project
supports manually thinning (with brush saws) 407 ha of red pine plantations
in the Nipissing Forest to increase the rate of growth of crop trees. This
Project provides an estimated 5,073 person-days of employment for the local
First Nations Communities in the North Bay and Temagami areas. It also contributes to the projected wood
supply gap for red pine sawlogs which feed mills in Mattawa, Sturgeon Falls
and Monetville. Nipissing Forest SFL. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 363-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
The Vermillion Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by industrial pollution. |
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Funding |
Approved $ 811,000 over
three years ($91,317 for 2000-01; $277,844 for 2001-02; $411,839 for
2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
growing red and white pine, and white spruce nursery stock and planting 3,100
ha of Crown Land degraded through past industrial activity. The areas planted
for future commercial management will be distributed on the deeper soiled
areas of the treatment blocks located east and north-west of the city of
Sudbury. This Project will provide immediate training and local employment
for First Nations contractors. The establishment of red and white pine will
contribute to critical pine sawlog supply. Sudbury Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 364-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case wind and
fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $891,330 over
three years ($525,263 for 2000-01; $278,830 for 2001-02; $87,237 for
2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
re-establishing productive jack pine, black spruce and white spruce conifer
plantations in stands damaged in the May 1999 fire and July 1999 windstorm
southeast of Chapleau in the Martel Forest.
The treatments include mechanical site preparation (disc trencher and
straight blade) on 1,060 ha, tree planting on 1,460 ha and chemical tending
on 1,060 ha. The benefits of this Project include the short-term provision of
local employment in the silvicultural sector and the maintenance of conifer
wood supply to avoid projected decreases of 180 percent in spruce/pine/fir
volumes. J.E. Martel Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 365-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case windthrow. |
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Funding |
Approved $ 695,883 over
three years ($390,595 for 2000-01; $200,100 for 2001-02; $105,188 for
2002-03). |
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Description |
This project consists of
reestablishing productive jack pine stands on 935 ha of 50 to 80 year -old
jack pine forests damaged by windthrow in the Pinelands Windstorm July 1999
windstorm in the Pineland Forest. The
project includes mechanical scarification (disc trencher), planting jack pine
seedlings, and aerially tending the young plantations with herbicide to
control competition. Benefits include providing local employment and
increasing the future jack pine wood supply by 4 to 9 percent over a 10-year
period. Pineland Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 366-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case a spring
1999 wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $19,200 over
three years ($14,800 for 2000-01; $4,400 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This small Project
consists of hand planting 40,000 red pine to re-establish a 20 year-old
plantation and a 13 ha 80 year-old white birch forest in Timbrell Twp. burned
in the spring of 1999. The Project
also includes aerially tending the 40 ha young plantations in 2002 with
herbicide to control competition. Benefits include providing local employment
and will help to maintain the red pine wood supply. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 367-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case a 1999
White River Forest windstorm. |
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Funding |
Approved $ 138,350 over
three years ($32,850 for 2000-01; $93,000 for 2001-02; $12,500 for 2002-03). |
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Description |
This small Project
consists of re-establishing a productive forest in areas damaged by a major
windstorm in the White River Forest.
Specifically, it funds mechanical site preparation of 150 ha with
associated slash piling and burning, stock purchase, planting 300,000 jack
pine and tending young plantations on 125 ha. Benefits include the provision
of local employment and the maintenance of the wood supply to the White River
sawmill. White River SFL. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 368-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Mazinaw -Lanark Forest
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management
to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically establishing and
maintaining red oak regeneration through stand improvement and chemical site
preparation silvicultural techniques. |
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Funding |
Approved $ 44 ,415 over
two years ($12,690 for 2000-01; $31,725 for 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
culling invading low grade tolerant hardwood in and around oak seed trees
followed by the application of Vision® herbicide to release crop
red oak in North Canonto and Ashby townships from competing hardwoods. This
will provide local employment to forestry and logging contractors, provide
training to local forest industry partners, enhance white-tailed deer habitat
(mast production) and provide for the future red oak sawlog and veneer supply
to local mills. Mazinaw Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 369-2-R11 |
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Applicant |
Algonquin Forest
Authority |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion in this case heavy
winds, often referred to as downbursts. |
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Funding |
Approved $46,583 for one
year (2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
mechanical site preparation, stock purchase and planting white and red pine
on 210 ha of blowdown in the northeast section of Algonquin Provincial Park.
Benefits include the provision of local employment in partnership with the
Makwa Community Development Corporation of the Algonquins of Golden Lake
First Nation for nursery stock production and silvicultural work. The Project
also contributes to meeting shortages in white and red pine sawlog
supply. Algonquin Park. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 371-1-R11 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically spacing 15
to 30 year-old jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $51,461 for one year (2000-01). |
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Description |
This Project involves
manually thinning of overstocked jack pine to accelerate growth on already
well developed straight but slender stems on 173 ha. It will be thinned to 1,700 stems per ha. This area was tube planted in 1974. This activity will provide local short-term
employment. It will reduce rotation ages thereby contributing to meeting the
Projected shortfall in pine sawlog material.
Iroquois Falls Forest SFL. |
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ROUND
TWELVE PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 375-1-R12 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted critical
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $107,314
($53,657 in 2000-02; $53,657 for Year 2). |
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Description |
The Pipe Lake/Hutton
Stand Enhancement project consists of using brushsaws to manually space 334
ha of dense 14 to 19 year-old post-fire juvenile jack pine from 7,000 stems
per ha to 1,700 trees per hectare.
This will increase the growth rate of crop trees, provide short-term training
and employment for local Lac La Croix First Nations and Seine River
silvicultural workers, and meet future predicted shortfalls in sawlog
supplies. Fort Frances Flanders Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 376-1-R12 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted critical
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $621,400 over
three years ($203,000 in 2001-02; $207,100 in 2002-03, $211,300 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
using brushsaws to manually spacing 2,100 ha of dense 9 to 15 year-old direct
seeded juvenile jack pine from 6,000 to 15,000 stems per ha down to target densities of
1,500 to 1,800 trees per hectare. This site is located 70 to 90 km north from
Fort Frances in the West Division of the Highrock Forest SFL. This will
increase the growth rate of crop growth and contribute to the predicted
shortfall. Highrock Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 377-1-R12 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted shortfalls in jack
pine sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $71,650 ($35,825
in 2001-02; $35,825 in 2002-03). |
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Description |
The Kenorain Blowdown Stand
Enhancement Project consists of manually spacing 223 ha of dense (9,000 to
12,000 stems per ha) 16 year-old jack pine established following the salvage
cut of a forest damaged by severe winds.
Target densities of 1,500 to 1,800 trees per ha will promote the
growth of crop trees and shorten the age of rotation to meet future wood
supply shortages. Thinning activities will provide employment for local First
Nations communities. This site is located 40 km northeast of Mine Centre
between Fort Frances and Atikokan. Highrock Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 379-1-R12 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management by planting 162 ha of barren and scattered class xyz lands. |
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Funding |
Approved $50,328 in
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
re-fill planting of jack pine on 162 ha of barren and scattered (Class Z)
lands on the Stewart Lake Road, 50 km southeast of Mine Centre in the Fort
Frances-Flanders SFL. Planting will be
at densities of 800 trees/ha with chemical tending planned for 2002. The
tending will be funded by the Renewal Trust. Fort Francis-Flanders Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 380-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $143,850 over
two years ($58,350 in 2000-01; $85,500 in Year 2). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
regenerating forests near Undersill Lake burned by the Beardmore Wildfire
(NIP #12) during 1999 and salvaged harvested. Specifically, 150 ha will be mechanically
site prepared and planted to jack pine and spruce at densities of 1,800 trees
per ha. Future aerial applications of glyphosate (Vision®) may be
carried out at the expense of the company.
This Project will provide employment opportunities in the Beardmore
area in addition to contributing to the long-term wood supply objectives of
this forest. Lake Nipigon Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 381-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $316,290 for
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
regenerating 470 ha of one-year old black spruce plantations and natural
regeneration of black spruce lowlands harvested under the Careful Logging
Around Advanced Growth (CLAAG) systems burned in a 1999 wildfire. The site is located 60 km east of
Longlac. Specifically, 811,000 black
spruce container stock will be planted at an average density of 1,725 trees
per ha. This Project will contribute to the future conifer wood supply for
local mills and provide employment for residents of Longlac, Geraldton,
Nakina, Terrace Bay, and local First Nations communities. Kenogami Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 382-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by 1999 fires. |
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Funding |
Approved $180,292 in
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
establishing plantations on areas in the Armstrong Forest burned by the
Linklater Lake Fire (THU #65) in 1996 and salvage harvested during the winter
of 1999-00. This site is located approximately 80 km from Armstrong. Specifically, this Project involves site
preparing (disc trencher) and planting 338,400 black spruce and jack pine on
188 ha. This Project will contribute
to the softwood fibre supply for the Red Rock linerboard mill and provide
employment opportunities for the Whitesand First Nation. Armstrong Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 383-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $62,88 ($49,084
in 1999-00 and 13,797 in 2000-01). |
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Description |
The Fawn Fire
Reforestation project consists of re-establishing selected jack pine and
black spruce forests on portions of the 422 ha burned in 1999. Approximately 81 ha will be planted with
jack pine and black spruce at densities of 1,500 to 1,800 seedlings per
ha. An additional 172 ha will be
aerially seeded with jack pine at rates of 50,000 seeds per ha. These
activities will provide 90 person-days of employment and will contribute to the
long-term conifer supply for local mills. The project is located 68 km
northeast of Ear Falls. Trout Lake Forest MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 384-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by spruce budworm and wildfire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,119,975 over
two years ($238,500 in 2000-01; $881,475 in 2001-02). |
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Description |
The North Church
Road-Nipigon 10 Burn Plantation Establishment Project consists of
mechanically site preparing 1,345 ha and planting 2,650,000 black spruce,
jack pine and red pine seedlings at densities of 1,750 per ha on budworm salvage areas harvested in 1998 and
1999 and burned in the early spring of 1999. The Project area is located
approximately 80 km north of Dorion. This will help meet projected future
shortfalls in jack pine and spruce. It will also provide employment for local
residents of Dorion and a First Nations’ Silvicultural Contractor. Black
Sturgeon MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 385-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by blowdown. |
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Funding |
Approved $433,697
($267,607 in 2001-02; $166,090 in Year
2). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
re-establishing conifer plantations on 1,250 ha of blowdown salvage areas on
the Lakehead Forest west of Thunder
Bay. Specifically the Project will
site prepare 1,250 ha using disc trenchers and bracke in the summer and early
fall of 2001 followed by planting 1,730,100 jack pine, black spruce, red
pine, and white spruce seedlings at densities of 1,400 trees per ha. This activity provides short-term
employment for silvicultural workers and contributes to the long-term conifer
wood supply for local mills. Lakehead MU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 386-1-R12 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest
Alliance Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed conifer to meet predicted shortfalls in sawlog
material. |
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Funding |
Approved $450,000
($150,000 over three years beginning in 2001-02). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
pre-commercially thinning 1,500 ha of 12 to 18 year-old jack pine plantations
over three years to accelerate crop tree growth in order to meet predicted
shortfalls of jack pine sawlog material in 2020. Contract work will be carried out by four
First Nations silvicultural workers. The Project is located along the Manion
Road system, approximately 150 km east of Fort Frances. Brush saws will be
used to reduce densities from 7,000 to 18,000 stems per ha to 1,500 to 1,800
stems per ha. Timiskaming Forest MU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 387-1-R12 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft-Minden Forest Company
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood stand management to meet a critical future timber supply,
specifically for quality hardwood sawlog and veneer quality timber. |
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Funding |
Approved $91,350 ($36,750
in 2001-02; $27,510 in 2002-03, $27,090 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This project consists of
mechanically site preparing and planting trees on 105 ha of harvested 115
year-old white pine/red oak/maple/red spruce forests managed under the
shelterwood system. This will increase the quality and quantity of regeneration
of white pine, red oak and red spruce in the forests of the Grindstone Lake
area to meet future critical wood supply shortages. Minden CMU. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 388-2-R12 |
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Applicant |
Algonquin Forest
Authority |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $43,508 over 2 years. ($28,280 in
2001-02; $15,228 in Year 2) |
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Description |
Downbursts in July 1999
damaged over 1,000 ha of timber on the east side of Algonquin Park. This
Project consists of mechanically site
preparing (straight blade) 65 ha of the wind-damaged area and planting
118,000 red, white and jack pine on these prime sites. This will provide
local employment for silvicultural workers, a market for seedlings produced
by the Makwa Community Development Corporation of the Algonquins of Golden
Lake First Nation, and contribute to future conifer wood supplies. Algonquin
Park MU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 389-3-R12 |
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Applicant |
Ministry of Natural
Resources |
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Type |
Protection of areas
depleted by insects. |
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Funding |
Approved $42,000 for 2000-01. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
conducting ground and aerial surveys to identify spot infestations of pine
shoot beetle. This will provide the information to establish a containment
program to prevent the spread of this beetle which can lead to mortality of
Scot’s pine and native pines. This
Project provides employment to technical staff and contributes to protecting
the pine wood supply in the Parry Sound area. Parry Sound District. |
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ROUND THIRTEEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 390-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management, specifically to manually space juvenile jack pine to meet
predicted critical shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $49,500 in
2000-01. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually spacing 150 ha of 15 year-old
jack pine plantations with brush saws from 36,000 stems per ha down to
2,600 stems per ha. The young stand is growing on site Class 1 lands along
the Pine Ridge Road. This work will increase conifer yields in the 20 to
40-year age class where significant shortages are expected. It will also provide 180 work-days for
local contractors. Red Lake Forest MU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 391-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
pre-commercial thinning of jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $28,267 in
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Fleming Rd. 2001
Stand Enhancement Project consists of manually spacing 103 ha of dense 10
year- old jack pine plantations to densities of 1,400 to 1,700 stems per ha
in order to increase the rate of growth of crop trees. This will help meet
projected critical shortfalls in jack pine, red pine, and spruce sawlog
supply and will provide local employment. Fort Frances/Flanders Forest MU. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 393-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
pre-commercial thinning of young conifer stands. |
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Funding |
Approved $450,000 ($150,000 divided equally over 3
years beginning in 2001-02) . |
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Description |
This project consists of
manually spacing 90 ha of dense (6,000 to 15,000 stems per ha) of 9 to 18 year-old Site Class 1 black spruce,
red and white pine stands to 1,500 to 1,800 stems per ha in order to increase
the growth of conifer crop trees. The project, located 50 km west of Ear
Falls, will provide local employment for First Nations and other local
silvicultural workers and will contribute to future critical pine wood supply
for the local mills. Whiskey Jack Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 395-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the pre-commercial
thinning of young jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $198,644 in 2001-02. |
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Description |
The Sapawe Forest Backlog
Tending, Pre-Commercial Thinning and Improvement of Conifer Plantations
Project consists of manually spacing 640 ha of conifer plantations
established in the 1980’s and 1990’s down to 2 m spacing. Specifically the Project includes aerial
spraying 356 ha of red pine and spruce plantations to release the conifer
from deciduous competition, moto-manually spacing 284 ha of suppressed jack
pine, red pine and spruce plantations with brushsaws, and moto-manually
tending, pre-commercially thinning and treating 232 ha of snow and ice
damaged high density jack pine plantations with brushsaws. This is expected
to provide an additional 66,000 cu m of conifer volume over the next 40 years
and will provide short-term local silvicultural work. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 396-2-R13 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $64,307 ($24,084
in 2001-02; $40,223 in 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
mechanically scarifying 145 ha, planting 65 ha of black spruce and aerial
seeding 80 ha of jack pine following the salvage harvest of 75 to 90 year-old stands damaged by winds
in 1999. This stand reclamation
Project will reduce the local fire hazard, provide local employment to
silvicultural contractors, and contribute to local conifer shortfalls to
support mills in Barwick and Sapawe. Highrock Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 397-2-R13 |
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Applicant |
Kimberly-Clarke Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by spruce budworm. |
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Funding |
Approved $386,356 over
two years ($73,490 in 2001-02; $312,866 in 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
mechanically site preparing 569 ha with a power disc trencher, planting
854,700 jack pine, white spruce and black spruce at 1,500 trees per ha. This
will provide work for local silvicultural and nursery production employees
from Longlac, Geraldton, Nakina, Terrace Bay, Schreiber and local First
Nations and will return a productive site to commercial conifer production.
Kenogami Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 398-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically to
pre-commercially thin jack pine. |
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Funding |
Approved $405,000
($135,000 per year over three years commencing in 2001-02). |
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Description |
This project consists of
manually spacing 1,200 ha of high density aerially seeded juvenile jack pine
plantations down to target densities of 1,700 to 2,100 stems per ha over
three years in partnership with the Wikwemikong First Nations. This project will space conifer to
accelerate diameter growth and shorten rotations to help meet projected
critical wood supply shortages. It
will also provide long-term forestry training and employment opportunities
for local First Nations. Spanish Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 399-2-R13 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the
establishing conifer plantations in fire salvaged forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $746,398
($257,460 in 2001-02; $488,938 in 2002-03). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
regenerating forests consumed by the 1999 Crocker Lake Fire. Specifically the Project consists of site
preparing 847 ha planting 1,390,000 conifer seedlings and aerially seeding
jack pine on 155 ha of productive glacio-fluvial and lacustrine sites. This
work is expected to provide an additional 100 to 150 cu m per ha commercial
fibre. It will provide employment for University students and tree planting
contractors from the Pic Mobert First Nation. White River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 400-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the stand
improvement in tolerant hardwood stands. |
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Funding |
Approved $22,400 for
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
releasing 250 yellow birch per ha in 56 ha of tolerant hardwood forest
growing on moderately fresh to fresh Ecosites 29 north of Pancake Bay
Provincial Park. This spacing program will increase the growth rate of yellow
birch crop trees and increase the percentage of sawlog and veneer quality
hardwood supply to local mills in Sault Ste. Marie and Thessalon. Algoma
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 401-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive management of
red and white pine forests, specifically the release of established white
pine plantations to meet conifer wood supply shortages. |
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Funding |
Approved $117,450 over
three years ($30,450 Year 1; $43,500 Years 2 and 3). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually cleaning 270 ha of natural white pine regeneration from competing
species over a three year period. The sites include: a 1990 Clear Cut Leaving
Seed Trees followed by mechanical scarification, a 1990 Strip Cut followed by
mechanical scarification with a root rake, and a 1989 Uniform Shelterwood
harvest. These sites are located in
the North Shore Forest (formerly Spanish River Crown Management Unit area) in
Curtin and Shedden townships. This Project will provide silvicultural
employment for local Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nations. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 402-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management
to meet a future critical wood shortage, specifically the pre-commercial
thinning of young jack pine plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved with reduced
funding $100,160 ($33,387 in Years 1 and 2 and $33,386 in Year 3). |
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Description |
This three-year Project supports
manually thinning (with brush saws) 227 ha of jack pine plantations growing
on productive Site Class 1 outwash soils in Nairn, Tennyson and Gough
Townships in the Northshore Forest. The Project will reduce the density of 16
to 20 year-old jack pine plantations from 2,700 to 3,000 stems per ha down to
1,500 to 1,900 stems per ha to produce higher yields and quality of wood in
the future, and to increase stem diameter to improve saw log quality and
yield in a shorter rotation period.
This Project provides employment for the local Sagamok Anishnawbek
First Nations. It also contributes to
the projected wood supply gap for jack pine sawlogs. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 403-2-R13 |
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Applicant |
Spruce Falls Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas affected by the forces of natural depletion, in this case, fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $294,891 over
two years ($131,577 in 2001-02; $163,314 in Year 2). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
establishing 350 ha of productive jack pine and spruce plantations to
re-establish forests where 35 year-old stands burned in the May 1997 Timmins District Wildlife #24. The treatments include site preparation
(corridor slash alignment) followed by planting 150,000 jack pine container
stock in 2001 and 280,000 black and white spruce container stock and 200,000
jack pine in Year Two at densities of 1,800 trees per ha. The benefits of
this Project include the provision of 460 work days of local employment in
the silvicultural sector and the provision of 52,500 cu m of conifer at
rotation. This represents a four fold increase in conifer volume from the
site. Gordon Cosens Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 404-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft-Minden Forest
Co. Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet critical shortfalls in wood supply, specifically to
establish and intensively manage red and white pine forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $565,100
($185,600 in 2001-02; $189,60 in
2002-03; $189,900 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
planting 300,000 red and white pine forests per year on 600 ha of
mechanically and or chemically site prepared sites over three years. This
Project will contribute to the critical shortage in white and red pine sawlog
and pole material in the future and provide local employment. Bancroft Minden
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 405-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet critical shortfalls in wood supply, specifically to
release red and white pine and white spruce plantations. |
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Funding |
Approved $579,750
($197,063 in 2001-02; $191,343.50 in Years 2 and 3). |
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Description |
This project consists of
releasing 4,000 ha of conifer over three years with three approaches. The
aerial applications of Release herbicide to treat 800 ha each year, air blast
ground spraying of 200 ha per year and manual herbicide tending with basal
bark applications with Release herbicide and brush saws equipped with a
Vision® herbicide applicator on 325 to 350 ha per year. This project will contribute to the
critical shortage in white and red pine sawlog and pole material in the
future and provide local employment. French Severn Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 406-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet critical shortfalls in wood supply, specifically to
establish and intensively manage red and white pine forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $28,000 divided
equally over two years. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
providing financial incentives to commercial operators to harvest marginally
economical thinnings of young 20 to 40 year-old red pine plantations on 360
ha of land within the OMNR District of Parry Sound. Undersized pre-commercial
stems will be felled to provide space for crop trees. Chain saw and skidder/horse/tractor and
shortwood harvesters will be used. This Project will contribute to meeting
the short- and long-term shortage of pine sawlogs, utility poles and
log-house quality poles in the area and provide local employment. French
Severn Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 407-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet critical shortfalls in wood supply, specifically to
establish red oak forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $39,748 ($14,644
in 2001-02; $20,688 in 2002-03; $4,416 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This project consists of
collecting red oak acorns and stock production, mechanically or chemically
site preparing land, and planting 37,000 container and bare root oak
seedlings at densities of 600 trees per ha on 80 ha. This project will
contribute to meeting the short- and long-term shortage of pine sawlogs,
utility poles and log-house quality poles in the area and provide local
employment in the Parry Sound area and for local First Nations communities.
French Severn Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 408-1-R13 |
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Applicant |
Mazinaw-Lanark Forest
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet critical shortfalls in wood supply, specifically to
establish and intensively manage red and white pine forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $75,000 in
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
manually cleaning red and white pine plantations. In some cases this will be
supplemented with herbicide treatment of cut stumps to prevent
re-sprouting. About 30 ha will be
treated with a ground air-blast sprayer and a small portion treated with
Basal Bark application to reduce competition. This Project will contribute to
meeting the short- and long-term shortage of pine sawlogs, utility poles and
log-house quality poles in the area and provide local employment in the Parry
Sound area. Mazinaw-Lanark Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 409-3-R13 |
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Applicant |
Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to meet critical shortfalls in wood supply, specifically to
establish and intensively manage red and white pine forests. |
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Funding |
Approved $112,000 in
2001-02. |
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Description |
This Project consists of
a containment Project to prevent the spread of pine shoot beetle. This will
reduce the chance of loss of white pine in the area. It would consist of removing slash, stumps
and logging debris following harvest operations. The work would be conducted and funded by a
partnership of the Canadian Forest Service, the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. This will contribute
to protecting the white pine supplies for future sawlogs, utility poles and
log-house wood. Parry Sound District. |
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ROUND FOURTEEN PROJECTS |
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411‐1‐R14 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated Inc.
and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to release black
spruce and jack pine to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $74,250.00 ($24,750 per year over
three years commencing in 2002‐03). |
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Description |
Ground tending of 270 ha of 4 to 9 year‐old
seeded and planted jack pine and black spruce plantations with the herbicide
Release. This will free suppressed conifers from competition in areas
salvaged following blowdown and insect infestation in the early 1990’s. The
project occurs in scattered blocks in the Whiskey Jack Forest south of Red
Lake. This will provide local employment for loggers and contribute to
mitigating predicted future shortfalls of black spruce and jack pine sawlogs.
Whiskey Jack Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 412‐1‐R14 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated Inc.
and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to manually space
juvenile black spruce and jack pine to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $450,000 ($150,000 per year over
three years commencing in 2002‐03). |
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Description |
The Whiskey Jack Forest Stand Enhancement
project consists of manually spacing, with brush saws, 900 ha of 9 to 18 year‐old
jack pine and black spruce plantations to reduce densities from 6,000‐15,000
stems per ha down to 1,500‐1,800 trees per ha.
The project occurs in scattered blocks 50 km west of Ear Falls. This Project
will provide local employment for silvicultural contractors including
aboriginal workers, and contribute to future jack pine and black spruce
sawlog and fiber supplies. Whiskey Jack Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 413-1-R14 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to manually space jack pine to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $39,270.00
($23,100 in 2002-03; $16,170 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
The Flanders Stand
Enhancement Project consists of manually spacing 102 ha of 15 year-old jack
pine plantations to reduce densities from 10,000 stems per ha down to
1,500-1,800 trees per ha. The Project
occurs in scattered blocks 50 km southwest of Atikokan. This Project provides local employment for
Lac La Croix and/or Seine River First Nations’ silvicultural workers and
contributes to future jack pine sawlog and fiber supplies. Crossroute SFL Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 414-2-R14 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically blow down. |
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Funding |
Approved $43,029 in 2002-03. |
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Description |
The Valerie Falls
Blowdown Tending Project consists of aerially tending (with Vision®
herbicide) young (one year-old) jack pine, red pine, black spruce and white
spruce plantations established on 378 ha of an area salvaged following a
blowdown in late June 1999. This will
release the crop trees from hardwood competition. The area to be treated is 10 to 20 km
northwest of Atikokan. This Project will provide employment for silvicultural
contractors and accelerate the growth of crop trees to contribute to future
conifer wood supplies. Crossroute SFL. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 415-2-R14 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Canadian Forest
Products Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,777,500
($593,000 in 2002-03; $593,000 in 2003-04; $591,500 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Kab Lake Plantation
Development on Nipigon 10 Salvage Blocks on the North Block of the Black
Sturgeon Forest project consists of mechanically site preparing, planting
jack pine and black spruce, and ground tending 3,000 ha of recent and
proposed post-fire salvage forests.
This project occurs near Kabitotikwia Lake on the North Parcel of the
Black Sturgeon Forest 100 km north of Thunder Bay. This Project will provide local employment
for silvicultural contractors including those from Gull Bay First Nations,
and is predicted to increase conifer yield from 77 cu m/h to 232 cu
m/ha. Black Sturgeon Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 416-1-R14 |
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Applicant |
Nipissing Forest Resource
Management Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand
improvement to increase quality hardwood sawlog and veneer production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $472,650 ($237,330 in 2002-03; $157,550 in 2003-04;
$157,550 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Tolerant Hardwood
Stand Improvement project consists of marking and cutting low quality stems
on 4,110 ha of degraded 40 to 80 year-old hard maple forests growing within
the Loring deer yard. This treatment
will prepare stands for a commercial harvesting in 20 to 25 years. This project will provide training and
local employment for First Nations’ silvicultural workers, contribute to the
production of hardwood sawlog and veneer, and provide browse for deer in the
Loring deer yard. Nipissing Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 418-1-R14 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand
improvement to increase quality hardwood sawlog and veneer production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $312,000
($36,400 in 2002-03; $130,000 in 2003-04; $145,600 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Tolerant Hardwood
Stand Improvement project consists of marking and cutting low quality stems
on 6,000 ha of degraded tolerant hardwood forests growing in scattered
locations throughout the French Severn Forest near Parry Sound. This treatment will supplement the income
for loggers carrying out the work and contribute the production of quality
hardwood sawlog and veneer where critical shortages occur. French Severn Forest. |
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PROJECT
NUMBER 419-1-R14 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tending of
white pine and red oak to increase quality sawlog production in areas where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $146,300 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
The Manual Cleaning White
Pine, Red Pine Project consists of manually cleaning, with brushsaws and
chainsaws, white pine and red oak in Wylie, Brougham, Griffith and Lyndoch
Townships in the Country of Renfrew to increase crop tree growth. Many of these areas were harvested under
the uniform shelterwood silvicultural system.
This Project will accelerate the growth of crop trees in Bear
Management Areas, deer yards, and the Madawaska and Deep River. It will also provide employment for local
silvicultural contractors. Ottawa
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 420-1-R14 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive regeneration of
red oak production in areas where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $197,320
($135,600 in 2002-03; $61,720 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
The Oak Ecosystem
Restoration Project consists of intensive tending, thinning and artificial
regeneration of 480 ha of mixed hardwood forests managed under the
shelterwood system in Madawaska Highlands.
Mechanical site preparation will uproot poplar, red maple, balsam fir
and dense shrub layers to create planting spots for red oak (at 800 stems per
ha) in stands where mature red oak was previously harvested. This Project will enhance wildlife habitat,
and contribute to the restoration of red oak forests for future wood supplies in the area. It will also provide training opportunities
and provide employment to local forest operators, nursery producers, and
contractors. Ottawa Valley Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 421-1-R14 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive white pine
management to increase quality sawlog production in areas where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $272,600
($234,600 in 2002-03; $38,000 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
The Intensive White Pine
Stand Management Project consists of intensive tending (with Air Blast
Sprayer herbicide application), site preparation and planting white pine on
772 ha of land. This Project will
contribute to the maintenance of white pine wood supply where critical
shortages occur. It will also provide
employment to local forest operators, nursery producers, and
contractors. Ottawa Valley Forest. |
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ROUND FIFTEEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 424-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated
Inc./Fort Frances Division |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted critical
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $75,500 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
The Fort Frances Division
Spacing 2002 Project consists of using brushsaws to manually space 250 ha of
10 to 15 year-old jack pine
plantations from 8,000 to 15,000 trees per ha down to target density of 1,500
to 1,800 stems per ha on a site 74 km NW of Fort Frances in Mathieu Twp., 45
km NE of Fort Frances. This will
increase the rate of growth of crop trees to help meet future wood supply
deficiencies in the 21 to 40 year-old age class and will provide 390
person-days of employment for local tending crews. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 425-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted critical
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $24,108 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
The 1 Sapawe Forest
Backlog Tending, Aerial Tending and Improvement of Conifer Plantations
project consists of aerially tending 287 ha of red and white pine, and black
and white spruce plantations established in the 1980’s and early 1990’s in
the Chill Lake, Bar Lake, and Cyderman Lake areas. This will contribute an
additional 20,000 cu m toward future wood supply shortages to local sawmills
in Atikokan, Sapawe, Fort Frances, Thunder Bay and Ignace. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 426-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
|
Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine to meet predicted critical
shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $99,096 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
The 2 Sapawe Forest
Backlog Tending, Pre-commercial Thinning and Improvement of Conifer
Plantations Project consists of moto-manually tending 304.8 ha of dense 10 to
20 year-old jack, red, and white pine plantations, including 164 ha of
ice-damaged jack pine stands east of the Mercutio River. This will increase the rate of crop tree
growth and provide fiber to Atikokan and Ignace sawmills with residual chips
delivered to Abitibi-Consolidated in Fort Frances. It will also provide 650 person-days of
employment for silviculture contractors. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 427‐1‐R15 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stands management to space
poplar to meet predicted critical shortfalls in poplar veneer and sawlog
material. |
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Funding |
Approved $189,600 ($63,200 per year over
three years commencing in 2002‐03). |
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Description |
The Pre‐commercial Stand
Improvement – Poplar project consists of using brushsaws to manually space
450 ha of 8 to 14 year‐old naturally regenerated poplar
from over 5,000 stems per ha to 2 by 2 m spacing. This will accelerate growth
of crop trees; thereby increase the percentage of veneer quality sawlogs. It
will also create 150 person‐days of work per
year for silvicultural contracting companies. Spruce River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 430-2-R15 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd.
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $709,105
($171,018 in 2002-03; $462,652 in 2003-04 and $76,435 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Silviculture
Remediation of Areas Depleted by Wind in the Wesley Area project consists of
regenerating forests blown down in 1999 and 2000 on the south corner of the
Trout Forest. Stands harvested will be
site prepared by TTS disc trencher, local seed collected and the areas
planted to jack pine and spruce container stock. This will create 1,050 person-days
of employment for silvicultural workers and contribute to conifer wood
supplies. Trout Lake Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 432-2-R15 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,507,160 ($536,552 in 2002-03; $970,608 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This project consists of
mechanically site preparing 1,480 ha of productive lacustrine sands, silts
and clays that supported young plantations burned in the 1999 Nipigon 12 Fire
and salvaged in 2001. Over 2,664,000 jack pine and black spruce will be
planted at densities of 1,800 trees per ha to provide an additional 138,615
cu m of softwood at rotation to contribute fiber to Norampac’s linerboard
mill at Red Rock. This project will also provide work for local silvicultural
contractors including local First Nations. Lake Nipigon Forest (deemed SFL). |
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PROJECT NUMBER 433-2-R15 |
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Applicant |
Dryden Forest Management
Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of abandoned agricultural lands. |
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Funding |
Approved $62,226. |
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Description |
The Abandoned Fields
Reclamation -Dryden Forest Project consists of planting 81 ha of Crown
Landfields in the Dryden Forest to red pine, black spruce and white spruce to
increase the amount of productive forest land and to provide local
employment. Dryden Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 434-2-R15 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest
Management Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $51,510 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
The North Road Blowdown
Project consists of salvaging, piling and burning slash, site preparing and
aerially seeding to jack pine or planting black spruce on 288 ha of forests
around Rathouse Lake, north of Red Lake damaged by wind in 2001. This will
contribute to future conifer wood supplies and provide revenue to local
contractors. Red Lake Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 435-2-R15 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $29,600 ($6,179 in 2002-03; $19,795 in
2003-04; $3,626 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Kaiarskons Blowdown
Revision project consists of mechanically site preparing 37 ha of blowdown
and planting to black spruce, jack pine and red pine, and chemically tending
as needed. This will re-establish productive conifer forests to help meet
predicted shortfalls of conifer pulpwood and to provide local employment
opportunities. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 436-2-R15 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $520,300 ($88,675 in 2002-03; $259,375 in
2003-04; $172,250 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Crossroute 2001
Blowdown Revision project consists of salvaging and regenerating 1005 ha
forests damaged by windstorms on July 31 2001 in Rainy River District. Specifically, 300 ha will be mechanically
site prepared, 600 ha will be planted with jack pine, red pine and black
spruce at densities averaging ,1800 stems per ha and 250 ha will be seeded to
jack pine. This will contribute to future conifer wood supply and provide
local employment. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 437-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Tembec Industries Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to plant black spruce to meet predicted critical shortfalls in
conifer material. |
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Funding |
Approved $206,125 ($65,537 in 2002-03; $140,587 in
2003-04). |
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Description |
The Smooth Rock Falls NSR
Rehab River Project consists of refilling poorly stocked young plantations in
Agate, Adanac, Bradburn, Geary, and Wilhelmina Townships with oversize black
spruce seedlings to meet predicted future conifer wood supply shortages. This
Project will provide over 305 person-days of work and address First Nations
concerns about regeneration on their traditional area. Smooth Rock Falls
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 438-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to plant white pine to meet predicted critical shortfalls in white
pine supply. |
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Funding |
Approved $150,000
($47,340 in 2002-03; $67,950 in
2003-04 and $34,710 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
This project consists of site
preparing 160 ha and planting 1,500 white pine per ha in Whitehead, Hutcheon
and Symington Townships followed by a ground application of herbicide to
control competition where needed. This project will contribute to the long
term white pine supply and provide local employment for silvicultural
contractors. Superior Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 439-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to manually space jack pine to meet predicted critical shortfalls
in conifer material. |
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Funding |
Approved $12,000 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
The Pre-commercial Thinning of Jack Pine Stand
Project consists of manually spacing 30 ha of 10 year-old jack pine with
brush saws to reduce densities from 11,000 stems per ha to 1,800 to 2,200 stems
per ha in Hill and Marshall townships. This will reduce rotation age and
contribute to future conifer wood supply. Superior Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 440-1- R15 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to manually space white and red pine to meet predicted critical
shortages in pole and sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $246,413
($92,546 in 2002-03; $76,933 in 2003-04; $76,934 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
This project consists of
manually spacing 577 ha of 20 to 70 year-old red and white pine plantations
in the Kirkwood Forest, providing local employment for loggers and a source
of sawlogs for Midway Lumber. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 441-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources North Bay District/Temagami First Nations |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to manually space white and red pine to meet predicted critical
shortages in pole and sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,095,000
($275,000 in 2002-03; $410,000 in 2003-04; $410,000 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
The MNR Temagami First
Nations Manual Tending project consists of manually tending 800 ha of young
pine and spruce plantations in the Temagami Forest to meet future shortfalls
in white pine and spruce and to provide 6 months of employment for 12 to 15
local First Nation community and other First Nation Members each year.
Herbicide (glyphosate) will be applied with the tending in the spring and
fall to reduce resprouting. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 442-2-R15 |
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Applicant: |
Timiskaming Forest
Alliance Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $99,737 in
2002-03. |
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Description:
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This Project consists of
planting 375,000 trees in an area burned in the Watabeag Lake Fire-Timmins
12 in 2001 (with subsequent blowdown
of standing dead timber). It consists of tending 250 ha of young regenerating
jack pine and black spruce plantations. Timiskaming Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 443-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft-Minden Forest
Company |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood management to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur by increasing the volume of high-value added, high quality sawlogs. |
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Funding |
Approved $510,000
($170,000 for each of three years commencing in 2002-03). |
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Description |
This project provides
compensation to loggers for the removal of unmerchantable stems during a
single tree selection harvest on 5,100 ha of Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Tolerant Hardwood Forests. Bancroft-Minden |
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PROJECT NUMBER 444-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Algonquin Forest
Authority Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood management to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur by increasing the volume of high-value added, high quality sawlogs. |
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Funding |
Approved $70,800 ($23,600
in 2002-03; $35,400 in 2003-04; $11,800 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
This project provides
compensation to loggers for the removal of unmerchantable stems during a
single tree selection harvest on 300 ha sugar maple and yellow birch polewood
stands at Laurel Lake. This provides employment opportunities for Algonquin
First Nation Communities and contributes to quality hardwood sawlog supplies.
Algonquin Park |
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PROJECT NUMBER 445-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive tolerant
hardwood management to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur by increasing the volume of high-value added, high quality sawlogs. |
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Funding |
Approved $169,600
($84,800 in 2002-03; $84,800 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
The Felling
Unmerchantable Stems in Shelterwood Cuts project provides compensation to
loggers for the removal of unmerchantable stems during a single tree
selection harvest on 3,200 ha of forests in scattered locations in the French
Severn Forest. This would provide local employment and contribute to future
shortages in quality sawlog material. French Severn Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 446-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Mazinaw-Lanark Forest
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to thin white pine plantations to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $37,500. |
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Description |
The Grimsthorpe Strips –
Pine Restoration Project consists of manually tending 125 ha of 20 year-old
white pine plantations to release suppressed crop trees from competition. The
Project occurs in Grimsthorpe Twp 50 km south of Bancroft. This will provide
local employment for loggers and contribute to shortfalls of white pine
sawlogs. Mazinaw-Lanark Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 447-3-R15
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Applicant |
Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources Parry Sound District |
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Type |
Forest protection
programs in response to insect infestation or disease |
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Funding |
Approved $75,000 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
An inventory of where
concentration of Pine Shoot Beetle damage is occurring and treatment to
contain the outbreak. This will protect the white pine forests to sustain conifer
wood supplies. Parry Sound District. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 448-1-R15 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Canadian Forest
Products Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive conifer stand
management to space suppressed jack pine, black and white spruce to meet
predicted critical shortfalls in sawlog material. |
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Funding |
Approved $450,000 ($150,000 in each of 2002-03,
2003-04, and 2004-05). |
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Description |
The Development of Future
Commercial Thinning Sites on the Current River Portion of the Black Sturgeon
Forest project consists of using brushsaws to manually space 1500 ha of 8 to
13 year-old black and white spruce and jack pine plantations to 1,850 to
2,500 trees per ha to enhance future wood supply and to provide employment
and training for youth and First Nation contracts within close proximity to
Thunder Bay. Black Sturgeon Forest. |
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ROUND SIXTEEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 450‐1‐R16 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to release black
spruce and jack pine to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $264,000 ($88,000 per year over
three years commencing in 2003/04). |
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Description |
Ground tending of 600 ha of planted and
seeded jack pine and black spruce in the Caribou East Parcel of the Black
Sturgeon Forest to reduce densities from 5,000 to 9,000 stems per ha down to
a target of 2,300 stems per ha. This will provide local employment for
silvicultural contractors including aboriginal workers and will contribute to
future jack pine and black spruce sawlog and fiber supplies. Black Sturgeon
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 453-2-R16 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper
Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,380,685
($902,135 in 2003-04; $463,550 in 2004-05 and $15,000 in 2005-06). |
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Description |
This project consists of
mechanical site preparation on harvest salvage blocks and planting jack pine,
black spruce, red and white pine on 2,357 ha in the Nipigon 10 burn
areas. Aerial or ground tending will
be applied if required to control future competition. This will provide local employment for
residents of Dorion and Nipigon area residents and provide future conifer
wood supplies. The project is located
south of Lake Nipigon east of black Sturgeon Lake. Black Sturgeon Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 454‐2‐R16 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,687,500 ($562,500 per year over
three years commencing in 2003/04). |
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Description |
This project will manually and mechanically
space 4,500 ha of dense 10 to 20 year‐old jack pine down
to 2,000‐2,500 stems per ha in stands damaged
by a 1999 severe wind event. This project will provide 3,000 person‐days
of employment to the local silvicultural contractors including those from
First Nations. It will increase the local conifer sawlog supply. Dog River‐Matawin
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 455-2-R16 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest
Management Company Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $10,358 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
This project consists of
aerially seeding 200 ha of 2 to 8 year-old aerially seeded jack pine
plantation destroyed by wildlife in July 2002. This project will contribute to the future
conifer wood supply. Red Lake Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 456-2-R16 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $134,579 in
2003-04. |
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Description |
This project consists of
mechanically site preparing 361 ha followed by planting jack pine and black
spruce on 442 ha of blowdown salvage in 2003.
This project will provide local employment for silvicultural
contractors and is predicted to provide 110,000 cu m of conifer yield.
Lakehead Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 457-2-R16 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Co. Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $109,602
($64,602 in 2002-03 and $45,000 in 2003-04). |
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Description |
The Slate Lake blowdown
reforestation project consists of harvesting, power disc trenching, and
planting 250,000 black spruce and jack pine seedlings and aerially seeding 43
ha of salvage area. Approximately 216
ha will be aerially released with herbicide if required to reduce competition
from non-crop species. This project
will provide employment for local silvicultural workers including the local
First Nations, and contribute to future conifer wood supplies. Trout Lake
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 459-1-R16 |
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Applicant |
Dubreuil Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to manually space juvenile jack pine to increase timber production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $25,410 in
2002-03. |
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Description |
This project consists of
manually spacing, with brush saws, 77 ha of 18 year-old jack pine plantation
in Atkinson Twp 30 km north of Dubreuilville to reduce stand density from
6,000 stems per ha to 800 to 1,000 stems per ha. This will accelerate the growth rate of
crop trees and contribute to sustaining the local sawmill. Magpie Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 460-1-R16 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand
improvement to increase quality yellow birch sawlog and veneer production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $61,280 ($30,640
per year over two years commencing in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This tolerant hardwood
stand improvement project consists of marking and cutting competing stems to
space yellow birch crop trees down to a density of 250 crop trees per ha on
160 ha of dense yellow birch tolerant hardwood stands. This treatment will release the crop trees
to accelerate growth and contribute to future yellow birch sawlog and veneer
supply. The project also provides
employment for local silvicultural workers during spring breakup. Algoma
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 461-1-R16 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand
improvement to increase quality hardwood sawlog and veneer production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $450,000
($225,000 per year over two years commencing in 2003-04). |
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Description |
The tolerant hardwood
stand improvement project consists of marking and cutting low quality stems
on 6,000 ha of degraded hard maple forests.
This treatment will prepare stands for a commercial harvesting in 20
to 25 years. This project will provide
training and local employment for silvicultural workers, contribute to the
production of hardwood sawlog and veneer, and contribute to the attainment of
biodiversity values in the forest.
Algoma Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 462-1-R16 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to thin dense mixed-wood stands to increase timber production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $63,000 ($31,500
per year over two years commencing in 2003-04). |
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Description |
This project consists of
pre-commercially thinning 120 ha over two years, of planted and naturally
regenerated white spruce, black spruce, white pine, jack pine and naturally
regenerated white birch, hard maple and yellow birch in Nagonash and Roy
townships. The treatment will reduce
the density from 8,000 stems per ha to 2,000 stems per ha accelerating growth
and increasing the future supply of quality sawlog material in mixedwood
forests. In addition, this project
provides employment for local silvicultural workers. Wawa Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 464‐1‐R16 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to regenerate
black spruce and white spruce to increase timber production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,257,662 ($304,328 in 2003/04;
$619,938 in 2004/05 and $333,396 in 2005/06). |
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Description |
The Timiskaming
Forest Backlog/Barren and Scattered Regeneration project consists of
regenerating 963 ha of historic harvest depleted areas and 258 ha of barren
and scattered areas through the aerial and ground application of chemical
site preparation, and planting 2,133,000 black and white spruce. This will
increase the future conifer supply by 29 percent of the annual conifer
harvest currently harvested from the area and provide 308 additional days for
local silvicultural workers. Timiskaming Forest. |
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ROUND SEVENTEEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 466‐1‐17 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to release black
spruce and jack pine to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $225,000 ($75,000 per year over
three years commencing in 2003/04). |
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Description |
This project consists of ground tending of
900 ha of planted and seeded jack pine and black spruce over three years.
Spacing of crop trees will accelerate growth and reduce the time to harvest
for merchantable conifer thereby contributing to predicted shortfalls in
conifer sawlog supply. It will also provide employment for silvicultural
contractors. Spruce River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 467‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Pulp and Paper Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to release jack
pine to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,800,000 ($400,000 in 2003/04;
$700,000 in each of 2004/05 and 2005/06) |
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Description |
The Late Spacing‐stand
Enhancement on the English River Forest project consists of pre‐commercially
thinning 4,500 ha of older (15 to 25 year‐old) plantations
and seeded jack pine areas with manual and mechanical brush saws from densities
of 3,000 stems per ha down to a target density of 2,100 to 2,500 stems per
ha. This will provide local employment for silvicultural contractors,
primarily from Ignace, and will contribute to future jack pine sawlog and
fiber supplies. English River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 468-1-R17 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to manually space juvenile jack pine to increase timber production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $50,339 in
2003-04. |
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Description
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This project consists of
thinning 212 ha of dense aerially seeded jack pine plantations established by
MNR between 1989 and 1993 along the Sedgwick and West Sedgwick Road systems.
Portions of these stands were damaged in an ice storm in November 1998. Densities will be reduced from 5,000 to
8,000 trees per ha down to 1,800 to 2,500 stems per ha. This project will provide an estimated 735
person-days of local employment for silvicultural contractors and contribute
to future jack pine and black spruce sawlogs and fiber supplies by bringing
these xyz lands back into the productive forest base. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 469-1-R17 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to manually space juvenile jack pine to increase timber production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $30,216 in
2003-04. |
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Description
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This project consists of
moto-manually thinning 125 ha of planted red pine, jack pine and spruce
plantations established between 1990 and 1997. Portions of these stands were damaged in
an ice storm in November 1998.
Densities will be reduced from 5,000 to 8,000 trees per ha down to
1,800 to 2,500 stems per ha. This project will provide local employment for silvicultural
contractors and contribute to future jack pine, red pine, and black spruce
sawlogs and fiber supplies by bringing these xyz lands back into the
productive forest base. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 470‐2‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wet snow and wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,526,463 ($254,994 in 2003/04;
$606,752 in 2004/05 and $664,717 in 2005/06). |
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Description |
This project consists of mechanical site
preparation of 1,860 ha, and planting 2,964,600 black spruce and jack pine on
harvest salvage blocks in an area north of Lake Nipigon. These stands were
damaged by wet snow and wind in an October storm. This project will increase
the local conifer supply and provide employment for local silvicultural
contractors. Armstrong Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 473-2-R17 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $354,403
($115,988 in 2003-04; $238,415 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
This project consists of
mechanical site preparation and planting jack pine and black spruce at
densities of 1,400 seedlings per ha of 1,084 ha of blowdown salvage. This
project will provide local employment for silvicultural contractors. Lakehead
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 475‐2‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Great West Timber Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $709,259
($342,142 in 2002‐03; $317,117 in 2004/05; $50,000 in
2005/06). |
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Description |
The Nipigon Fire 75
project consists of a regenerating plantations and areas slated for natural
regeneration that were burned in a July 2002 fire. Pic River Ojibway Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 476‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
The Vermillion Forest Management Company
Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space red pine
to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $710,400 ($163,392 in 2003/04;
$273,504 in 2004/05 and $273,504 in 2005/06). |
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Description |
Manually thinning, with chain saws, 2,160 ha
of 21 to 50 year‐old red pine plantations surrounding
the Greater Sudbury area. This project is jointly funded by Living Legacy
Trust. It will contribute to the production of red pine sawlog supplies for
six local mills and provide employment for local First Nations forestry
workers. Sudbury Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 477‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Renewal and tending on Class Y lands to
increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $663,906 ($228,901 in 2003/04;
$310,980 in 2004/05; $124,025 in 2005/06). |
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Description |
The Pineland Martel Forest Stand 2003
Rehabilitation project consists of mechanical site preparation and planting
1,065,000 jack pine, black spruce and white spruce seedlings on 167 ha of
Class Z and Barren and Scattered lands. This will increase the conifer fibre
supply and provide employment for forestry workers. Pineland Martel Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 478‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand improvement to
increase quality hardwood sawlog and veneer production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $129,900 ($65,100 in 2003/04;
$64,800 in 2004/05). |
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Description |
The tolerant hardwood stand improvement
project consists of marking and cutting low quality stems on 1,466 ha of
degraded hard maple/yellow birch forests. This treatment will prepare stands
for a commercial harvesting in 20 to 25 years and provide opportunities for
local silvicultural contractors. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 479-1-R17 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to thin dense jack pine plantations to increase timber production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $150,000 in
2003-04. |
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Description |
The Jack Pine
Pre-commercial Thinning project consists of tending 300 ha of dense jack pine
plantations over three years. The
treatment will reduce stand density to 1,500 to 2,200 stems per ha which will
accelerate growth and increase the future supply of quality conifer sawlog
and fibre. This project is a cooperative project with the Pic Mobert First
Nation. White River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 481-1-R17 |
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Applicant |
Hearst Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management
to regenerate plantations to increase timber production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $2,255,000
($385,000 in 2003-04; $1,045,000 in 2004-05, and $825,000 in 2005-06). |
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Description |
The project would scarify
13,270 ha and plant 29 m black and white spruce, and jack pine seedlings on
Class A/ Category 1 Lands. Chemical tending would follow to release crop
trees. Hearst Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 483-2-R17 |
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Applicant |
Weyerhaeuser Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $143,167 in
2003-04. |
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Description |
The Conifer Release of
Chapleau Fire #01/1999 project consists of the aerial application of Vantage
(glyphosate) herbicide applied by fixed-wing aircraft at 2.1 kg a.e./ha to
control hardwood competition on 1511 ha of burn to control to release planted
jack pine crop trees. This project
will accelerate the growth of crop trees to meet future wood supply needs. Superior Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 485-1-R17 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to regenerate white pine to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $144,888
($114,680 in 2003-04; $30,208 in 2004-05). |
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Description |
This project consists of
manual and chemical tending in white pine shelterwood cuts. Vision®
(glyphosate) will be applied as a ground spray, as a chemical site
preparation, and through the EZ Ject stem injection system to reduce
competition of hardwood species to release white pine crop trees. White pine
seedlings will be planted on 256 ha of area where natural pine regeneration
is low. Ottawa Valley. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 486‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand improvement to
increase quality hardwood sawlog and veneer production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $556,700 ($165,900 in 2003/04;
$192,700 in 2004/05, and $198,100 in 2005/06.) |
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Description |
The Mid‐tolerant and
Hardwood Renewal project consists of marking and cutting low quality stems on
5,567 ha of degraded hard maple/red oak/white pine forests. This project will
see the felling of non‐merchantable and poor quality
hardwoods to release target hardwood and white pine crop trees in mid‐aged
mixed hardwood/pine forests. This treatment will increase the presence of red
oak, white pine, and sawlog quality hardwoods in the managed forest Ottawa
Valley Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 487‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft‐Minden Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Tolerant hardwood stand improvement to
increase quality hardwood sawlog and veneer production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $151,500 ($50,500 over three years
beginning in 2003/04). |
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Description |
The project consists of treating 900 ha of
forest land. Manual tending of established advanced regeneration to release
yellow birch crop trees will be carried out. In areas of dense yellow birch
seed trees, group selection to create 50 group openings will be conducted.
The third portion of this project consists of chemical or mechanical site
preparation and planting or direct seeding of dry areas to promote red oak
regeneration. These treatments will increase the presence of red oak, white
pine, and yellow birch in the managed forest and provide contract work.
Bancroft‐Minden Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 488‐1‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation to bring xyz lands
into production. |
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Funding |
Approved $302,750 ($122,000 in 2003/04;
$80,000 in 2004/05 and $100,750 in 2005/06). |
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Description |
This project will plant red pine and white
pine seedlings on 1,200 ha of backlog xyz white pine stands at densities of
250 to 750 trees per ha in the understory. Aerial applications of a chemical
herbicide will be carried on selected areas to control competition of
hardwoods as a chemical site preparation prior to planting. This project will
provide employment for local silvicultural contractors including First
Nations. French Severn Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 489‐2‐R17 |
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Applicant |
Ottawa Valley Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $30,554 ($17,864 in 2003/04;
$12,690 in 2004/05). |
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Description |
The Renewal of Claradeer Lake blowdown project
consists of mechanically site preparing and planting white pine in a post‐blowdown
salvage harvest 47 ha area in Clara Township. This will enhance the future
supply of white pine and provide silvicultural work for local contractors.
Ottawa Forest. |
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ROUND EIGHTEEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 494-1-R18 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest Management Company Limited |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to release jack
pine to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $135,000 ($67,500 in each of
2004/05 and 2005/06). |
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Description |
The Red Lake Forest Stand Enhancement
Project consists of using brush saws to space 450 ha of 9 to 15 year‐old
jack pine plantations from 7000 stems per ha to 1800 stems per ha over two
years. This Project will increase the wood supply and provide approximately
800 work days for silvicultural contractors. Red Lake Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 495-2-R18 |
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Applicant |
McKenzie Forest Products Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,179,716 ($1,132,206 in 2003/04;
$47,510 in 2000/05). |
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Description |
This Project consists of broadcast seeding
22,556 ha of cutover and forest areas burned in a July 2003 fire, to
regenerate to jack pine and black spruce. This will contribute to sustaining
sawmills in Hudson in the Sioux Lookout area. Lac Seul Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 497-2‐R18 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $485,400 ($333,600 in 2003/04;
$151,800 in 2004/05). |
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Description |
The Armstrong Blowdown/Snow Damage – Jack
Pine Regeneration Retreatment Project involves brushing and chipping damaged
saplings to create planting sites to reestablish jack pine plantations.
Approximately 3,000 ha will be treated and planted to jack pine. This Project
will contribute to future sawlog supplies and provide employment for local
forestry workers. Armstrong Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 498-1‐R18 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to release jack
pine plantations to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $124,820 ($40,925 in 2004/05 and
2005/06 and $42,970 in 2006/07). |
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Description |
This Project will pre‐commercially
thin approximately 305 ha of over‐stocked young jack
pine stands from densities of 5,000 to 10,000 trees per ha to densities of
1,700 stems per ha to accelerate growth of crop trees. This will increase
future conifer sawlog supplies and provides immediate opportunities for local
silvicultural contractors. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 499-1‐R18 |
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Applicant |
Hearst Forest Management Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to thin dense
jack pine plantations to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $67,360 in 2004/05. |
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Description |
This Project involves the pre‐commercial
thinning of 118 ha of 28 year‐old dense jack pine
plantations established after a 1975 wildfire in McEwing Township. The
treatment will reduce stand densities from an average of 9,360 to 4,500 stems
per ha. This will accelerate diameter growth and increase the future supply
of quality conifer sawlog and fibre.
This first of two thinnings will use brush saws to create one metre
wide strips across the stand in two directions. This Project will provide
employment for First Nations silvicultural workers. Hearst Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 500-1-R18 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management
to space yellow birch trees to increase timber production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $58,500 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
This Project will release
yellow birch crop trees in a 150 ha area of hardwood forest. Brush saws and chain saws will be used to
remove competitive and poorly formed tree species around a target spacing of
250 yellow birch crop trees per ha.
This Project will contribute to future quality sawlog and veneer
supplies and provide employment for local silvicultural workers. Algoma
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 501-1-R18 |
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Applicant |
Clergue Forest Management Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space white
pine to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $20,000 in 2004/05. |
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Description |
This Project involves the basal bark
application of herbicide to space planted white pine to improve diameter
growth rates and increase quality softwood sawlogs in the Wawa Forest. This
Project also provides employment for local silvicultural workers. Wawa
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 502-2-R18 |
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Applicant |
Hearst Forest Management
Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $123,008
($49,600 in 2003-04; $62,853 in 2004-05; $10,555 in 2005-06.) |
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Description |
This Project involves
mechanically site preparing, planting white and black spruce, and tending 127
ha of land, following a salvage harvest of forests damaged by strong
winds. This will also provide
employment for students and First Nations silvicultural workers. Hearst
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 503-2-R18 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $29,414 in
2003-04. |
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Description |
The Crocker Lake Fire
Salvage Harvest-Tending Project consists of chemically tending 306 ha of jack
pine plantations established following the 1999 Crocker Lake fire. This will
release conifer crop trees to increase survival and growth. The Project will
also provide employment for local silvicultural workers including those from
the local First Nations. White River Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 504-2-R18 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest
Alliance Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $34,713 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Munro Lake
Fire-Renewal Project consists of mechanically site preparing and planting
jack pine container stock on 61.9 ha of forests which were salvage harvested
following the June 2003 Kirkland Lake Fire #9. This Project will contribute
to the future conifer supply and will provide training and employment
opportunities for the local First Nations. Timiskaming Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 505-1‐R18 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to reestablish
white pine where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $200,982 ($65,203 in 2004/05;
$135,779 in 2005/06). |
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Description |
This Project consists of planting 492 ha of
white pine in areas that did not regenerate to conifer following a 1994 and
1996 shelterwood and seed‐cut harvest. Manual
tending with brush saws will be carried out to reduce hardwood competition.
This Project will contribute to future white pine sawlog supplies and will
provided employment for local forestry workers. Northshore Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 506-1-R18 |
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Applicant |
Mazinaw-Lanark Forest
Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to release white pine on class z lands to increase timber
production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $27,600 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
This Saptrough Lake Pine
Restoration Project consists of manually spacing 15 year-old white pine and
red pine established on 92 ha of class Z lands. This area was harvested in the 1970’s and
prescribed burned in 1985. This
Project will release conifer crop trees to contribute to future sawlog
supplies. It will also provide
employment for local silvicultural contractors including First Nations. Mazinaw-Lanark Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 507-1‐R18 |
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Applicant |
Westwind Forest
Stewardship Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to space sugar maple and yellow birch to increase timber
production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $462,400
($104,000 in 2003/04; $179,200 in 2004/05 and $179,200 in 2005/06) |
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Description |
This Project
consists of felling poor quality stems on 8,400 ha of tolerant hardwood
forests to improve growth and quality of crop trees. This Project will
improve the future volume of quality hardwood sawlogs and will provide fibre
to pulp mills and small fuelwood processors. French Severn Forest. |
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ROUND NINETEEN PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 508-1-R19 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest
Products Ltd. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to release jack pine to increase timber production where critical
shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $116,712
in 2004/05. |
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Description |
The spacing of seed‐origin
jack pine plantations established in the 1990’s on the Sapawe Forest consists
of precommercially thinning 389 ha of with brush saws from densities of 8,000
stems per ha down to a target density of 1,800 to 2,500 stems per ha. Part of
the work will be remedial work on stands damaged by a November 1998 ice
storm. This work will provide 780 days of employment for local silvicultural
contractors and will contribute to future jack pine sawlog and fibre
supplies. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 510-1-R19 |
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Applicant |
Atikokan Forest Products
Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural work to
increase timber supply where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $10,560 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
This Project planned to
aerially survey 3,264 ha of inaccessible stands for Free to Grow
classification and inventory updating. Sapawe Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 515-1-R19 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated
Company of Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to thin dense jack pine plantations to increase timber production
where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $278,846 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Tessup Road Junction
Pre-commercial Thinning Project consists of tending 100 ha of dense 13
year-old jack pine plantations in one year.
The treatment will reduce stand density from 10,000 to 1,500 to 1,800
stems per ha which will accelerate growth and increase the future supply of
quality conifer sawlog and fibre. This Project will provide employment for
students and First Nation silvicultural workers. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 516-1-R19 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated
Company of Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to space poplar crop trees to increase timber production where
critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $18,173 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Shoal Lake
Pre-Commercial Thinning Project consists of winter shear blading 2.4 m wide
strips to space 150 ha of poplar to accelerate growth of crop trees to
provide future poplar sawlog and veneer supplies. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 521-2-R19 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Canadian Forest
Products Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $267,750 for
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Cutoff Road Burn
Plantation Re-establishment Project will re-establish black and white spruce
plantations on 280 ha of area burned in a spring 2002 wildfire. The site was
mechanically site prepared and a ground herbicide treatment applied prior to
planting to reduce the heavy grass competition on this rich (ES 19), deeply
soiled site. This Project will provide
employment to the local silvicultural contractors and help maintain the local
conifer supply. Black Sturgeon Forest.
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PROJECT NUMBER 523-2‐R19 |
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Applicant |
Domtar Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $404,841 ($178,963 in 2004/05;
$225,878 in 2004/05). |
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Description |
The Nipigon 58 Wildfire Project will re‐establish
conifer plantations on 520 ha area burned in a mid‐summer
2003 wildfire. The site will be mechanically site prepared, planted and
released through aerial and ground tending with glyphsate at 1.7 kg ai/ha.
This Project will provide employment to the local silvicultural contractors
and contribute to the future conifer wood supply. Lake Nipigon Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 525-2-R19 |
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Applicant |
Trus Joist-Kenora and
Weyerhaeuser |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $7,312 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Kenora
Forest-Catastrophe Lake Fire Replant Project will re-establish black and
white spruce plantations on 12 ha burned in an August 2003 wildfire. Kenora Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 526-2-R19 |
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Applicant |
Longlac Forest Products
Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $25,894 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Stag Lake Block
Retreatment Project will site prepare and direct seed jack pine on 56 ha to
re-establish plantations burned in a fall 2000 wildfire. This Project will
create approximately 60 employment days for a local silvicultural contractor
and contribute to future conifer supplies. Ogoki Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 527-5-R19 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi-Consolidated
Company of Canada Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $39,627 in
2004-05. |
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Description |
The Stag Lake Block
Retreatment Project will site prepare and direct seed jack pine on 56 ha to
re-establish plantations burned in a fall 2000 wildfire. This Project will create approximately 60
employment days for a local silvicultural contractor and contribute to future
conifer supplies. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 528-1-R19 |
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Applicant |
Tembec Forest Resource
Management |
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Type |
Intensive stand
management to re-establish white pine where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $153,900
($48,840 in 2004-05; $69,450 in 2005-06 and $35,610 in 2006-07). |
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Description |
This Project consists of
site preparing (straight blade bulldozer) strips in 160 ha of low grade
hardwood forests and planting white pine seedlings at densities of 1,500
stems per ha to meet critical pine wood supply shortages. A ground application of herbicide will be
applied the third year to release crop trees from competition. This Project
also provided employment for local forestry workers. Superior Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 532-1‐R19 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc./Kirkland
MNR District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space jack
pine to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $216,000 ($108,000 in each of
2004/05 and 2005/06). |
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Description |
This Project consists of manually spacing
500 ha of 10 to 18 year‐old jack pine plantations to
densities of 2,000 stems per ha over two years to accelerate growth to
increase sawlog production. This Project will provide employment for local
silvicultural contractors including First Nations. Timiskaming Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 533-1‐R19 |
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Applicant |
Shining Tree Forest Inc./Timmins MNR
District |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space jack
pine to increase timber production where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $116,000 ($108,000 in each of
2004/05 and 2005/06). |
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Description |
This Project consists of motor‐manually
spacing 500 ha of 10 to 18 year‐old jack pine
plantations to densities of 2,000 stems per ha over two years to accelerate
growth to increase sawlog production. This Project will provide employment
for local silvicultural contractors including First Nations. Shining Tree
Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 541-2-R20 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of areas depleted by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $367,472 in
2005-06. |
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Description |
The Lakehead Forest
Wildfire Renewal Project consists of planting 850,000 jack pine and black
spruce at densities of 1,200 seedlings per ha on 720 ha of forests damaged by
a 2002 wildfire. Because of limited roads, access is by helicopter. This
Project will re-establish productive forests on these sites, thereby
contributing to future wood supplies close to Thunder Bay. Lakehead Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 542-2‐R20 |
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Applicant |
Bowater Canadian Forest Products |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire.. |
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Funding |
Approved $780,000 in 2005/06. |
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Description |
The Kab River Plantation Establishment
Project #2 involves site preparing and planting jack pine and black spruce
seedlings grown from improved seed from first generation seed orchards, in
areas burned by the Nipigon 21 Fire. Approximately 1243 ha will be treated.
This Project will contribute to future sawlog supplies and provide employment
for local Gull Bay forestry workers. Black Sturgeon Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 544-1‐R20 |
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Applicant |
Nipissing Forest Resource Management Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to space
hardwoods where critical shortages occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $1,170,000 ($1,95,000 in 2004/05;
$487,500 in 2005/06; $487,500 in 2006/07). |
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Description |
The Yellow Birch Restoration Project
consists of pre‐commercial thinning and cleaning
3,600 ha of scattered 30 to 40 year‐old yellow birch
polewood stands to accelerate growth. This Project will contribute to the
high quality hardwood sawlog and veneer supply and provide employment for
local silvicultural workers including First Nations. Nipissing Forest. South‐central
and northern Ontario. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 552-5-R20 |
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Applicant |
Tembec Industries
Inc./Cochrane District Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation
of class z lands. |
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Funding |
Approved $48,243 in
2005-06. |
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Description |
The Alexandra Township
Conifer Enhancement Project involves infill planting of black and white
spruce at densities of 1,200 trees per ha on class z lands that were
chemically site prepared with 2.2 kg a.i. glyphosate in August 2003. This
Project will contribute to future conifer supplies and provide employment for
local forestry workers. Smooth Rock Falls Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 556-6‐R20 |
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Applicant |
Forest Ecosystem Science Co‐operative
Inc. |
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Type |
Other ‐ Growth and Yield
Plots. |
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Funding |
Approved $317,000 in 2004/05. |
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Description |
This Forest Coop Growth and Yield Permanent
Growth Program consists of establishing new plots and the remeasurement of a
existing plots in a provincial network of permanent growth and yield plots
for both natural and managed forests. Location |
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ROUND TWENTY‐ONE PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 563-2‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated
Company of Canada |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $14,877 in 2005/06. |
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Description |
The Bernadine/Arnold Blowdown Renewal
Project involves brushing and chipping damaged saplings to create planting
sites to re‐establish jack pine plantations.
Approximately 110 ha will be aerially seeded or planted to jack pine. This
Project will contribute to future sawlog supplies and provide employment for
local forestry workers. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 564-2‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Greenmantle Forest Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $199,477 ($59,850 in 2005/06;
$139,627 in 2000/07). |
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Description |
The Blowdown Salvage Area Renewal Project
involves mechanically site preparing, planting white and black spruce, and
tending 570 ha of land, following a salvage harvest of forests damaged by
strong winds. This will also provide employment for students and First
Nations silvicultural workers. Lakehead Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 565-2‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Red Lake Forest Management Company Ltd. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically wind. |
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Funding |
Approved $221,100 ($111,650 in 2005/06;
$109,450 in 2006/07). |
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Description |
The Parker Lake Blowdown Project consists of
following the 2002 and 2004 windstorm. This project consists of mechanically
site preparing 290 ha and planting 464,000 black spruce, white spruce and
jack pine seedlings, followed by herbicide release. This Project will
contribute to the local wood supply and provide employment for local
silvicultural workers. Red Lake Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 567-1‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated
Company of Canada |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $150,960 in 2005/06. |
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Description |
The Whiskey Jack Forest Blowdown Stand
Enhancement Project consists of tending plantations established between 1992
and 1995 following salvage harvest. The Project consists of manually spacing
300 ha of jack pine from densities of 5,000 ‐ 15,000 down to
1,900 to 2,500 stems per ha. This Project will enhance the future conifer
supply and will provide training and employment opportunities for the local
First Nations. Whiskey Jack Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 568-5‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Abitibi‐Consolidated
Company of Canada |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $41,500 in 2005/06. |
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Description |
The Ketchikan Lake Project consists of
manually releasing (with brush saws) 83 ha of planted red pine and natural
hardwood regeneration to densities of 1,400 to 1,800 trees per ha to release
crop trees. This will contribute to future wood supplies. Crossroute Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 570-1‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Timiskaming Forest Alliance Inc. |
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Type |
Intensive stand management to thin dense
jack pine plantations to increase timber production where critical shortages
occur. |
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Funding |
Approved $129,600 for 2005/06. |
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Description |
This Project involves the pre‐commercial
thinning of 300 ha of 10 to 20 year‐old dense jack pine
plantations. The treatment will reduce stand densities to accelerate diameter
growth of crop trees and increase future quality conifer sawlog supply. This
Project will provide employment for First Nation silvicultural workers.
Timiskaming Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 578-3‐R21 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft Minden Forest Company |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically insects. |
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Funding |
Approved $38,562 in 2005/06. |
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Description |
This Project consists of treating insect
pest infestations (redheaded pine sawfly – Neodiprion lecontiei) and
False pine webworm – Acantholyda erythrocephala) in juvenile red pine
plantations with Lacontevirus, to protect white and red pine seed sources.
This will contribute to sustaining sawmills in the Bancroft Minden area.
Bancroft Minden Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 591-2‐R22 |
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Applicant |
Tembec Industries Inc. |
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Type |
Silvicultural remediation of areas depleted
by natural causes, specifically fire. |
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Funding |
Approved $23,400 in 2006/07. |
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Description |
The Renewal of the 2005 Chapleau Fire #18
(Lincoln Twp) Fire Project involves planting black spruce and jack pine mix
in areas burned by the summer 2005 fire which will ensure that the pre‐fire
mix is maintained and the productive forestlands are re‐stocked.
This project will use improved stock black spruce seedlings. The area will be
tended in 2007 as the need is assessed. This project will contribute to
future wood supplies and provide employment for local forestry workers. J.E.
Martel Forest. |
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ROUND TWENTY‐TWO PROJECTS |
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PROJECT NUMBER 607-1‐R23 |
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Applicant |
Tembec Spruce Falls |
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Type |
First Nations Ranger Pre‐commercial
thinning program. |
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Funding |
Approved $51,500. |
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Description |
Pre‐commercial thinning
of 150 hectares of selected conifer stands will use manual thinning. This
treatment will reduce stand density from 4,000‐5,000 stems per
hectare to 2,000‐2,500 stems per hectares. This will
accelerate growth and increase future supply of quality conifer sawlogs and
fibre. This is a cooperative project with First Nation Forestry Youth
Employment Program. Gordon Cosens Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 627-2‐R23 |
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Applicant |
Bancroft Minden Forest Company Inc. |
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Type |
White Pine/red Pine Pest Management. |
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Funding |
Approved $11,466 in 2006/07. |
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Description |
Treatment of identified insect pest
infestations in juvenile red pine plantations (Redheaded Pine Sawfly – Neodiprion
lecontiei) and an established white pine seed orchard/seed production
area (False Pine Webworm – Acantholyda erythrocephala (L.)(Hymenopter
Pampilidae). The component of the project which deals with the treatment
of the orchard is the second year of treatment for infestation and will
maximize pest control and the long term health of the orchard. Bancroft
Minden Forest. |
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PROJECT NUMBER 613-5‐R23 |
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Applicant |
Tembec Industries Inc. |
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Type |
Smooth Rock Falls site
enhancement/rehabilitation project on Class Z lands |
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Funding |
Approved $39,733 in 2006/07. |
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Description |
Two blocks totaling 82.7 hectares will be
artificially regenerated (planted) to enhance stocking on the Smooth Rock
Falls Forest. Block A (66.7 hectares) was harvested and left to natural
regeneration. This block resulted in a stand of low stocking and is
anticipated that it will be a preferred harvest area in the future. Block B
(16 hectares) was harvested, artificially regenerated, and then depleted by
fire. This block will require a tending treatment in Year 2. Smooth Rock
Falls Forest. |
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