Healthy Landscapes Program
Carrying out research, develops models, and does communication and education to support ecosystem-based management.
We look at landscape change at a huge scale: Canada’s boreal forest.
The Healthy Landscapes Program is a forest land management research partnership based at fRI Research. Focused on Ecosystem Based Management and led by Dr. David Andison, the HLP brings together industry, government and academia to study forest dynamics. The HLP has been a leader in innovative, large-scale, forestry research and management, striving for forestry practices that provide ecological and ecosystem services for generations.
Program History
Begun in 1996, the program has contributed dozens of studies, education and outreach products intended to improve our understanding of EBM and disturbances in Canada’s boreal forest. Originally called, the Natural Disturbance Program, it became the Healthy Landscapes Program in 2012 to reflect an expanded program vision.
Key Resources
Program Lead
Dr. David Andison
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To what degree, and at what scale(s) is it possible to cluster forest harvesting activities across whole landscapes?
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".
The Landscapes in Motion project is here to discover some of the stories behind the landscapes in the southern Rockies of Alberta.
A communication and education project from the Healthy Landscapes Program.
A research project from the Healthy Landscapes Program.
A research project from the Healthy Landscapes Program.
A research project from the Healthy Landscapes Program on meso-scale wildfire patterns.
A research project and tool that uses spatial simulation modelling to generate the historical range of landscape conditions across western boreal Canada.
This interpretation project develops and tests a new planning approach inspired by ecosystem-based principles.
This tool is an annotated database of the available fire regime research in and near Alberta.
This demonstration project shows how an understanding of natural patterns can help guide land use planning.
This research project from the Healthy Landscapes Program seeks to understand the historical fire regimes in the foothills, and the relationship to water quality, land use, and climate change.
This project seeks to better understand the dynamics of large woody debris in small streams.
Research Project from the Healthy Landscapes Program.
This research project from the Healthy Landscapes Program measures the differences between natural and industrial disturbance patterns.
The communications and extension activities carried out by the Healthy Landscapes Program to share its research.
This is a C & E activity from the Healthy Landscapes program to improve understanding of natural disturbance patterns.
Created by the Healthy Landscapes Program, this is a tool for comparing human and natural disturbance.
This project demonstrates the application of the full range of NRV concepts.
This project looks at the patterns and roles of disturbances in riparian zones.
How and why individual forest fires burn what they do in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Andison argues that a robust NRV strategy should factor in the natural tendency of wildfire to cluster in time and space.
A compendium of briefing notes from the Healthy Landscapes Program.
What is the natural range of variation, and at what scales?
Paper from the Healthy Landscapes Program.
Open Access paper from the Healthy Landscapes Program
Interactive map to view case studies across Canada.
Open Access paper from the Healthy Landscapes Program
This online "atlas" is a comprehensive set of documents mapping out challenges to adopting ecosystem-based management in forest management.
This report summarizes the pre-industrial landscape metrics computed by the Landweb modelling suite.
Join Kylie McLeod from Ducks Unlimited Canada on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 10am MT
Join Dr. Nasim Kheirkhah Ghehi on Wednesday, December 11 at 10am MT.
A presentation by Drs. Williams and Bull on the socio-economics of EBM.
September brings new faces to fRI Research!
This position is now closed. Thank you to all who applied!
Vilbert brings broad experience in resource management science, policy, and building relationships between different groups.
Closing date: June 3, 2022
This job posting is now closed.
I want to share what LIM taught me both as a scientist and as a Program Lead.
Webinar from the Healthy Landscapes Program on April 21.
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Dr. David Andison
Program Lead
Sarah Schmid
Program Coordinator