Peace River also holds the rights to two Forest Management Areas covering 2.9 million hectares which supplies the majority of its annual hardwood fiber requirements.
Mercer acquired the Daishowa-Marubeni International (DMI), including the mill in Peace River in the fall 2018. It has three other mills in Rosenthal, Stendal, Celgar.
Woodland caribou are a cultural and ecological icon of Alberta’s forests. However, they are also a threatened species and represent a significant conservation challenge.
The fRI Research Caribou Program carries out applied research, in partnership with industry and the Government of Alberta, to help maintain caribou herds in Alberta into the future.
The program, formerly known as the Natural Disturbance Program, looks at landscape change at a huge scale: Canada's boreal forest.
The Mixedwood Management Association officially came into existence in 2001 with eight member companies and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. Hosted by the Alberta Research Council for the first two years and then the University of Alberta until 2015, when it amalgamated with FGrOW.
In April of 2012, Tree Improvement Alberta became a consortium of industry and government representatives under fRI Research. The initial project the Tree Species Adaptation Risk Management project funded by Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
WESBOGY has been operating since 1987 and is now housed at the University of Alberta under the direction of its chair, Dr. Phil Comeau. WESBOGY became a project team of FGrOW on January 1, 2015.
This project uses direct and indirect methods to determine how caribou respond to linear features at different stages of re-vegetation.
This is an FGrOW project involving permanent sample plots established between 2007–2015 to examine the ways hardwood (aspen) affect spruce development.
Protecting understory white spruce during removal of overstory aspen will ensure the utilization and release of advanced spruce growth, which will result in a shortened rotation, reduction of reforestation cost, and eventually an increase of timber production per unit of land.
Better models by sharing data between companies and government.
The Cutblock Inventory Classification Subcommittee was initiated in January 2015 to continue the work of the AFGO Strata Subcommittee.
The communications and extension activities carried out by the Healthy Landscapes Program to share its research.
A research project and tool that uses spatial simulation modelling to generate the historical range of landscape conditions across western boreal Canada.
On June 19 and 20, 2018, the Healthy Landscapes Program put on a two-day workshop in Edmonton called "From Concept to Reality: Creating a Road Map for Ecosystem-Based Management".
A recent paper from the Grizzly Bear Program built a framework for estimating grizzly bear carrying capacity, calcu… https://t.co/ImzrdQjogz
