White Pine Management
- White Pine Management has been recently added to the
Province's silviculture program.
- Species is valuable but silvicultural enhancement has
been ignored until recently because of severe disease
problems.
- White Pine Blister Rust, introduced from Europe in the
early 1900's, has decimated White Pine by killing most of
the regeneration.
A better understanding of the disease and other issues has
led to the implementation of new silvicultural prescriptions:
- Planting 400-700 pine seedlings per hectare in
combination with spruce plantations
- Genetic tree improvement programs - seed collection
programs which target disease resistant trees
- Forest improvement programs to favour White Pine crop
trees
- Pruning of juvenile trees to reduce their susceptibility
to disease
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