Role of the novaNAIT Boreal Research Institute

• publicize applications in forest management from the research
• educate the public, municipalities and organizations about EMEND through
  • field trips
  • media releases
  • multimedia products
  • newsletters
  • tours
  • workshops

Biologically based research in Forest Management

The EMEND project is located in the boreal mixedwood forest 90 kilometres north of Peace River, Alberta. It is a large-scale variable retention harvest experiment designed to test effects of residual forest structure on ecosystem integrity and forest regeneration at the forest stand level.

A long-term project, EMEND began in 1998 and is forecast to run for one stand rotation, or approximately 80–100 years. The project, centred at the University of Alberta, is a collaboration of several research agencies, provincial and federal governments, and forest companies operating in northwest Alberta.

Research Insights

EMEND has engaged an information service through its EMEND Insights series, formerly known as Research Notes. These research bulletins keep industry and practitioners knowledgeable about leading -edge findings and how they can be implemented on the landscape and regularly feature a research project, often by graduate students or PhD candidates, along with management implications of the research. The target audience for these reports is the forestry and oil and gas sector.

For a look at some past Research Notes and recent EMEND Insights, download

• EMEND 63: Bryophytes (2.03MB pdf) 
• EMEND 65: Understory (4.62MB pdf)
• Spruce and Aspen Regeneration Following Variable Retention Harvests at EMEND (1.2MB pdf)
• Deadwood-Associated Insect Biodiversity in Mixedwood Forests (1MB pdf)
• Responses of Arthropod Biodiversity to Variable Green-Tree Retention at the EMEND Experiment (PDF, 1.8 MB pdf)
• EMEND Decade 1, November 13, 2009 (167K pdf) 

• EMEND celebrates decade work Jan 2010 (205K pdf) 
• EMEND News Intern tour July 2010 (377K pdf)
• EMEND Seminar e-news Nov 2009 (750K pdf)
• News EMEND Trails Oct 2008 (3.01MB pdf)
• Forestry News EMEND CAMP Oct_2007 (785K pdf)
• EMEND Tour Bulletin July 2007 (300K pdf)
• BFRC Newsletter EMEND Fall 2006 (2MB pdf)
• EMEND Summer students Fall 2005 (176K pdf)
• EMEND_Spring_newsletter 2003 (322K pdf)
• RN EMEND 74: Retention Patches Pyper Spence Langor (1.26MB pdf)
   
  For more information, visit the EMEND website.