Last year it was western red cedar, this year it’s black spruce. This week staff at UNBC’s IK Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab, sowed over 2000 black spruce seeds for ALRF. When they are ready in 3 months, the seedlings will be planted on wet soils within Block 22 this spring as a demonstration site for …
ALRF staff completed an annual winter check on the climate station yesterday, and it was a good thing we did….two cables had been chewed through by ‘something’ (possibly a moose). One cable was for the snowdepth sensor and the other for the solar panel that recharges the station batteries. Based on the data, the station …
ALRF staff and a group of UNBC students were visiting a teaching site in a shelterwood harvest treatment in late August when someone noticed a bird nest located in a short but very branchy birch tree. The site has been actively browsed by moose ever since the 18 ha block was harvested in winter …