UNBC Greenhouse Curator, John Orlowsky, prepares seedlings for transport. The larch seedlings, sown in December, are now happily in the ground at Aleza Lake Research Forest where they can be observed and measured for many years to come. The process started with watering the seedlings throughly and carfeully pulling them out of the styroblocks …
Our seedlings are now over 4 months old! Planted just before Christmas, the Western larch are a whopping 8 inches tall and the grow lights have been reduced before they are planted in early June. The Western yellow cedar are showing their secondary growth – actual cedar leaves! They are still under the grow lights …
Congratulations to Jocelyn Campbell (UBC PhD Candidate) and her co-authors on their recent publication in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. The research took place at various locations within Aleza Lake Research Forest and surrounding ecosystems. The paper describes a study on cyanolichens, a type of lichen that grows in wet climates and old forest …