Foothills Pine Project Team
The Foothills Pine Project Team continues the work of the Foothills Growth & Yield Association, which formed in 2000 to co-operatively forecast and monitor managed stand growth and yield in Lodgepole pine.
Its mission comprises three activities: forecasting and monitoring responses to silvicultural treatments, facilitating the scientific development and validation of yield forecasts used by members in managing their tenures; and promoting knowledge, shared responsibility, and cost-effective cooperation
An initiative of the Foothills Pine Project Team, now in its third decade.
As a result of significant in-flights of mountain pine beetles coming from British Columbia in 2006 and 2009, as well as subsequent local production, there are widely distributed pine dominated stands throughout Alberta that have been significantly affected by MPB-caused mortality. Mortality is most prevalent from West-Central Alberta, in the Grande Prairie are and northwest of Manning.
How will a stand respond after MPB infestation, and what can the forestry industry do to help it regenerate?
A long-term collaboration.
How can forest companies best help stands bounce back from a MPB infestation?
Version 7.3 of this manual contains the design and specifications for the revised plot layout, measurements, data formats, maintenance, and quality control required for ongoing growth monitoring of the trial. A measurement schedule for the period 2022 to 2026 is appended to the manual.
Paper from the Regenerated Lodgepole Pine Project.
Technical report summarizing analyses of data collected at the end of the trial’s regeneration phase, between 2017 and 2020. It […]
Download and use the FRIPSY tool for Microsoft Excel. Updated in September 2022.
Paper from the Forest Growth Organization of Western Canada
Projected effects of pre-commercial thinning on mean annual increment of lodgepole pine at rotation age.
Effects of weeding on the growth and yield of reforested lodgepole
pine stands
Projected effects of planting on mean annual increment of lodgepole pine at rotation age.
Pictures from the FGrOW field tour in on October 10, 2019.
It’s been 10 years since the Foothills Growth and Yield Association (FGYA) installed a unique and important long-term experimental field […]