Bulkley Valley Research Centre - Science in the Public Interest

Restoring Whitebark Pine Ecosystems to Enhance Subalpine Bear Habitat - Year Two

Project Reference Number: 2012-11

Project Status: Complete

Led by: Sybille Haeussler, PhD, UNBC, Smithers

Various

Funder: Habitat Convervation Trust Foundation

This is year two of a five year project with the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation. Year one was part of project 2011-13.

The operational objectives over the five years are:

  1. To collect viable seeds from at least 20 apparently blister-rust resistant whitebark pine parent trees per year for five years (seed production is intermittent).
  2. To successfully regenerate at least 1000 whitebark pine seedlings from seed over five years in high value, recently burned or MPB killed bear habitat and protect these seedlings from competing vegetation and other damage.
  3. To successfully produce 500 - 1500 nursery-grown whitebark pine seedlings per year over five years (it takes 2 - 4 years to produce a seedling ready for outplanting).
  4. To successfully establish 100 to 1500 whitebark pine seedlings per year over five years within high value, recently-burned or MPB killed bear habitat.
  5. To successfully regenerate > 20 hectares of endangered whitebark pine ecosystems over a five year period.

 

To see all the work that the Bulkley Valley Research Centre has undertaken with respect to whitebark pine, please view our Whitebark Pine website at http://bvcentre.ca/whitebark.

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2014 Forest response to cumulative disturbance and stress: Two decades of change in whitebark pine ecosystems of west-central British Columbia Alana Clason, Ellen Macdonald, Sybille Haeussler
July 2014 Restoration of Endangered Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) in the Wetzin'Kwa Community Forest and Environs Sybille Haeussler, Bulkley Valley Research Centre
Spring/Summer 2014 Whitebark Restoration Advances in Northern BC Sybille Haeussler & Alana Clason, Bulkley Valley Research Centre
Spring/Summer 2014 Nutcrackers and Whitebark Cone Production in Northwestern B.C. Kerrith McKay, McKay Environmental Consulting Ltd.; Jodie Krakowski, Bulkley Valley Research Centre
June 2013 Endangered Whitebark Pine Ecosystems in the Mountains of West Central BC Sybille Haeussler, PhD RPF; Kerrith McKay, MSc
April 2013 Restoring Whitebark Pine Ecosystems to Enhance Subalpine Bear Habitat - Year Two Sybille Haeussler
April 2012 Restoring Whitebark Pine Ecosystems to Enhance Subalpine Bear Habitat - Year One Sybille Haeussler