{"id":151,"date":"2009-10-11T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~aleza\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2014-02-05T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:21:53","slug":"project-ideas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Project Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking a project for a class or an undergraduate thesis? Look no further! \u00a0Solve a real resource manaegment problem or question at ALRF where we \u00a0can \u00a0help you \u00a0set up a field project or provide you with the data and information \u00a0you will need. See below \u00a0for wide range of interdisciplinary project ideas, or <a href=\"http:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/?page_id=39\" target=\"_blank\">contact us <\/a>to \u00a0share your own&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>Recreation<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Interpretation plan for the East Loop Demonstration Trail<\/li>\n<li>Interpretation plan for the South Knolls Demonstration Trail<\/li>\n<li>Road-based demonstration plan for the entire forest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Forestry<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Growth and yield of second growth birch stands<\/li>\n<li>Ecological and economic utilization of birch<\/li>\n<li>Establishment and growth of cedar in the SBS wk1 (planted in 2005)<\/li>\n<li>Growth assessment of partial cut stands<\/li>\n<li>Economics of partial cutting<\/li>\n<li>Growth and yield of brushing sites<\/li>\n<li>Assessments of 40 year old spruce provenance or progeny trials<\/li>\n<li>Douglas fir seedling survivorship and performance in the SBSwk1<\/li>\n<li>Incidence of leader weevil in brushed stands under a variety of treatments<\/li>\n<li>Ground-based field verification of old growth stands<\/li>\n<li>Spatial distribution of interior old growth with respect to timber supply<\/li>\n<li>Windthrow and terrain stability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Wildlife and Fish\/Habitat ecology<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Bird survey across various eco-types and management histories<\/li>\n<li>Effects of historical forest and road development on fish populations<\/li>\n<li>Environmental impact assessment and rehabilitation plan for Slaney Creek<\/li>\n<li>Collection of local knowledge on wildlife<\/li>\n<li>Compilation of data from winter tracking surveys<\/li>\n<li>Compilation of data from reported wildlife sightings<\/li>\n<li>Habitat suitability comparisons between historical partial cuts and unmanaged stands<\/li>\n<li>The presence\/absence of rare and endangered plants<\/li>\n<li>Forest management and wildlife tree and CWD recruitment<\/li>\n<li>The effectiveness of wildlife tree patches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Ecology<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Disturbance history and dynamics<\/li>\n<li>The ecological state of pine bogs with respect to mountain pine beetle<\/li>\n<li>Paleoecology<\/li>\n<li>Successional development along the Bowron River<\/li>\n<li>Rare plant species inventory and habitat suitability<\/li>\n<li>Identifying linkages between site series and forest attributes (e.g., coarse woody debris, below canopy fuel loads)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Others<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>GIS and remote sensing analyses (e.g., wildlife suitability mapping; rare ecosystem mapping)<\/li>\n<li>Fluvial dynamics of the Bowron River<\/li>\n<li>Climate-related projects<\/li>\n<li>Pre- and post- pruning assessments of a pine plantation (e.g., growth and yield, wildlife damage)<\/li>\n<li>Tenure history of the ALRF<\/li>\n<li>Research history of the Aleza Lake Experiment Station<\/li>\n<li>The historical role of the Aleza Lake Experiment Station in the development of Upper Fraser communities<\/li>\n<li>Inventory and harvesting of non-timber forest products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking a project for a class or an undergraduate thesis? Look no further! \u00a0Solve a real resource manaegment problem or question at ALRF where we \u00a0can \u00a0help you \u00a0set up a field project or provide you with the data and information \u00a0you will need. See below \u00a0for wide range of interdisciplinary project ideas, or contact &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/?page_id=151\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project Ideas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/1377"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}