For more than a century, Weyerhaeuser has been growing trees and making forest products.
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.
Its mission comprises three activities: forecasting and monitoring responses to silvicultural treatments, facilitating the scientific development and validation of yield forecasts used by members in managing their tenures; and promoting knowledge, shared responsibility, and cost-effective coopera
The Forest History Program chronicles the natural and management history of the foothills forest.
The GIS program provides an exceptional level of GIS and data management support services for fRI Research.
The fRI Research Grizzly Bear Program provides knowledge and planning tools to ensure the long-term conservation of grizzly bears in Alberta.
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.
The program carries out focused research on infestations of mountain pine beetle in Alberta.
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.
In 2011, the Fish and Watersheds Program refocused on hydrology and became the Water Program.
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.
Collecting baseline health data for Alberta caribou herds.
This project uses direct and indirect methods to determine how caribou respond to linear features at different stages of re-vegetation.
How are caribou affected by the roads and seismic lines criss-crossing their habitat?
While detection and control efforts are key to mitigating MPB, it's also important to improve how land managers respond after an attack.
How will a stand respond after MPB infestation, and what can the forestry industry do to help it regenerate?
Will the beetle continue its expansion when it reaches hybrid jack pine forests?
An FGrOW initiative.
A long-term collaboration.
As a result of significant in-flights of mountain pine beetles coming from British Columbia in 2006 and 2009, as well as subsequent local production, there are widely distributed pine dominated stands throughout Alberta that have been significantly affected by MPB-caused mortality.
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.
This project develops population recovery targets based on habitat, and non-invasive techniques for monitoring grizzly bear reproductive performance.
This project uses DNA from hair snags to create a population inventory of grizzly bears in BMA 3 and Jasper National Park.
This project will investigate whether new approaches to forestry can minimize impacts on resident grizzly bears.
This project will evaluate and mitigate industrial impacts on west-central Alberta Caribou herds.
Locating habitat and prioritizing restoration in west-central Alberta.
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.
Beginning in 2018, this project will investigate how cutblock design can be less favourable for deer, moose, and elk.
This project examines how moose respond to different re-vegetation trajectories on seismic lines after disturbance and different silvicultural treatments used by forestry. A re-vegetation prescription or silvicultural treatment that moose avoid may be less of a problem for caribou.
A recent paper from the Grizzly Bear Program built a framework for estimating grizzly bear carrying capacity, calcu… https://t.co/ImzrdQjogz
