Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Subject "forest"
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Contemporary Forest Harvesting Impacts on Drinking Water Quality and Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Forested watersheds supply ~75% of global accessible freshwater resources and serve as important sources of drinking water. Both natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbances in these regions can deteriorate water quality ... -
Fighting Fire with Fire: Investigating Prescribed Burns for Fuel and Fire Management in Northeast Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-14)Uncontrolled wildfires occur in Ontario and across Canada each year, typically during the fire season from April 1 to September 30. Fire suppression in protected areas and property (private, Crown land) coupled with warmer ... -
From Conflict to Collaboration: Atewa Forest Governance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)Many countries are addressing the problem of deforestation through sustainable ecosystem management collaborations. Successful ones have recognized local participation as being essential to any conservation effort. In ... -
The influence of winter time boreal forest tree transmissivity on tree emission and passive microwave snow observations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)Forest cover significantly attenuates natural upwelling ground microwave emission from seasonal terrestrial snow. This presents a major challenge for the accurate retrieval of snow from airborne or spaceborne passive ... -
Rapid Understory Restoration of a Thinned Red Pine Plantation in Algonquin Provincial Park
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-20)Tree plantations can be used as a restoration tool to quickly re-establish canopy cover in degraded areas. A red pine plantation was established in the 1970s for just this purpose in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario. ... -
Using a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System to Investigate the Relationship between Canopy Temperature Depression and American Beech Health in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-30)The unprecedented spread of invasive pest and pathogens, along with climate change and human activity/development is degrading forest system health. American beech trees are a principal tree species that dominates Ontario’s ...