From: Climate change mitigation in Canada’s forest sector: a spatially explicit case study for two regions
Category | Description | Cranbrook (BC) | Dog River (ON) |
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Climate | Mean annual air temperature | 1.5 °C | 0.8 °C |
Forest Inventory | Total area | 1 Mha | 0.75 Mha |
Management Unit | Timber supply area 05 | 4 W 177 | |
Baseline year | 2011 | 2010 | |
Leading species | Lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, fir, spruce | Black spruce, poplar, jack pine, white birch | |
# Records (400 m2, 16 ha pixels) | 59.1 k | 46.2 k | |
Merchantable yield tables | Gross merchantable volume (VDYP7) based on site index and classifiers | Gross merchantable volume (Mist 3) | |
Classifiers | Montane Cordillera ecozone, leading species, ownership, harvest eligibility, growth curve key, pixel X ID, pixel Y ID | Boreal Shield West ecozone, species mix, Forest Unit, silvicultural intensity, harvest eligibility, pixel X ID, pixel Y ID | |
Projected Activity Data | Harvest amount | 1,292,000 m3/year in 2020 decreasing to 1,101,000 m3/year in 2040 | 513,000 m3/year in 2020 decreasing to 409,000 m3/year in 2040 |
Harvest methods | 85% utilization rate, minimum 60 year age, eligible stands sorted by highest merchantable C, slashburn 50% of harvested area | 90% utilization rate, minimum 60 year age, eligible stands sorted by highest merchantable C, capture 10% of roundwood for bioenergy, 25% of residues for bioenergy and slashburn 25% of harvested area | |
Wildfire | 1.1 kha/year | 0.5 kha/year | |
Land use change | None | None | |
Harvested Wood Products | Bioenergy from roundwood | Bioenergy from roundwood 0% | Bioenergy from roundwood 10% |
Milling efficiency 76% of roundwood used for commodities | Milling efficiency 76% of roundwood used for commodities | ||
Mill residues | Mill residue used for bioenergy 30% capture | Mill residue used for bioenergy 15% capture | |
Commodity proportions | Sawnwood 42% | Sawnwood 50.4% | |
Panels 16.2% | Panels 19.5% | ||
Other solid wood 3.6% | Other solid wood 4.3% | ||
Pulp and paper 38.2% | Pulp and paper 25.6% | ||
Infrastructure | Road layers (Accessed March 10, 2017) | GeoBC Atlas: Integrated Transportation Network, Government of BC, 2016 | National Road Network, Natural Resources Canada, 2012 |
Forestry tenure road segment lines, Government of BC, 2016 | MNRF Road Network, Government of Ontario, 2016 |