UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Purpose

Identify how adaptive silviculture practices can be used to produce forests that are less susceptible to climate extremes, with a specific focus on facilitating stand and environmental site conditions that allow for there generation of future climate-adapted species, develop adaptive silvicultural practices that can be used to buffer mature forests from negative climate change impacts, with a focus on increasing tree and stand resistance to drought stress in the intermediate term, and identify adaptive silvicultural methods that will increase the resilience of forest stands to climate sensitive disturbances, specifically wildfire and forest pathogens, in the intermediate to long-term.