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Le projet TRIADE : une approche d’aménagement forestier qui permet de concilier les aspects environnementaux, économique et sociaux

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TRIAD: A Sustainable Approach To Forestry

Le projet TRIADE : une approche d’aménagement forestier qui permet de concilier les aspects environnementaux, économique et sociaux

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TRIAD: a sustainable approach to forestry

Prof. Christian Messier, Universit du Qubec Montral (UQAM), Chaire CRSNG/Hydro-Qubec, Centre dEtude de la Fort (CEF)

Overview of talk
The situation in the wood today
The Qubec TRIAD project

Overview of talk
The situation in the wood today

The Qubec TRIAD project

Foley et al 2006

Dying of the NATURAL


Current: Future:

Seastedt et al. 2008

Changing of the old forestry


Steady-state forestry
- Reduced variability

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Ecosystem management

Resilience-based management

- Historical variability - Foster variability

- Prevent disturbance
- Maximize sustained yield

- Accept disturbance
- Manage for multiple uses

- Foster creative disturbance


- Maximize flexibility for future options

Drever, CR, Peterson, G, Messier, C, Bergeron, Y & Flannigan, M. 2006. Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience? Can. J. For. Res. 36: 2285-2299.

Overview of talk
The situation in the wood today

The Qubec TRIAD project

TRIAD: a functional zoning approach


CAS management (73%)
Emulating some element of natural dist.

Longer rotation & more diverse types of cuts


Retention of 5 to 10% on clearcuts (50% of land) 30 to 50% partial cutting (other 50% of land) Enrichment planting

Protected areas (12%)


Large superficies Including all ecosystems

Much less directed silvicultural interventions


Management at the landscape scale

Necessary control

Functional zoning
Intensive management (15%)
. More diversified intensive management . More diversified and better spatially planned plantations

TRIAD: a functional zoning approach


Complex Adaptive System manag. (50-80%)
Emulating some element of natural dist. Longer rotation & more diverse types of cuts
Retention of 5 to 10% on clearcuts (50% of land)
30 to 50% partial cutting (other 50% of land) Enrichment planting

Protected areas (1030%)


Large superficies Including all ecosystems Necessary control

Much less directed silvicultural interventions Management at the landscape scale

Functional zoning

Managing for complex adaptive systems

Ecosystem characteristics

Disturbance or cut (initial conditions)

Traditional management objective

Planned silvicultural interventions

TIME (years)

complexity management objectives: interventions to promote more variability of outcomes

TRIAD: a functional zoning approach


CAS management (73%)
Emulating some element of natural dist.

Longer rotation & more diverse types of cuts


Retention of 5 to 10% on clearcuts (50% of land) 30 to 50% partial cutting (other 50% of land) Enrichment planting

Protected areas (12%)


Large superficies Including all ecosystems

Much less directed silvicultural interventions


Management at the landscape scale

Necessary control

Functional zoning
Intensive management (15%)
. More diversified intensive management . More diversified and better spatially planned plantations

Mixed species plantation


Hybrid larch white spruce intensive plantation (TRIAD)

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More diversified plantations


12 indigenous species 7 exotic species Functional diversity gradient Mixture of 1, 2, 4, 6 and 12 species

TreeDivNet

ZONE DE CONSERVATION

Valeurs environnementales

Valeurs sociales

Ecosystem management

ZONE EXTENSIVE

ZONE DE PRODUCTION

Valeurs conomiques

According to our results and the results of many other studies, the functional zoning (like TRIADE) is better at achieving all of our objectives (social, economic and environmental) than the other approaches

Social acceptability
Kati Berninger (Ph.D. UQAM) a examin les attitudes envers lamnagement forestier de trois groupes dintrt: les environnementalistes, les forestiers, et les autres usagers de la fort. Tous les groupes ont prfr un type damnagement TRIADE avec au moins 10% de la fort en conservation (C), 10% en production (P) et 3% en plantations intensives ou ligniculture (lign) (Berninger 2007).

Conclusion
Our view and understanding of what is a forest has changed We need to endorse a dynamic, complex and resilience view of the forest Intensive management and plantations are keys in achieving our goals, but one can innovate in terms of plantations to reduce its negative socioecological impacts

TRIAD is a truly sustainable forestry approach that is well adapted to many situations

MERCI
CRSNG FQRNT SFMn MRNF UQAM Laval Alison Munson David Par Pierre Lasserre Pierre Drapeau Abitibi-Bowater Ville de La Tuque Nancy Glinas Nicolas Blanger Alain Paquette Nelson Thiffault Rebecca Tittler Vic Adamovicz Andrew Fall Marilou Beaudet Mike Papaik Charlie Canham Frdric Doyon Pierre Gagn Nadyre Beaulieu Pierre Boudreau Daniel Kneeshaw Marie-J. Fortin Tous les tudiants

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