Canadian Model Forests - Lake Abitibi

The Lake Abitibi Model Forest, covering 1.2 million hectares of boreal forest in northern Ontario, is located on the Quebec border in close proximity to the Ontario communities of Cochrane, Iroquois Falls and Timmins. The forest’s dominant tree species are balsam fir, black spruce, trembling aspen and white birch. Three forest companies, Abitibi-Consolidated, Tembec and Norbord, manage approximately 95 percent of the land in the Model Forest area. Lake Abitibi Model Forest’s project areas include community level socio-economic development models, ecological processes and education. The Forest is also a pilot site for the development and testing of the Operational-Scale Carbon Budget Model.

August 23, 2009 - Could regionalization help forest-dependent regions thrive between boom and bust?

A presentation by Hugo Asselin PhD, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Forestry,
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, to delegates at Paving the Way: Stabilizing Local Resource-Based Boom and Bust Economies held in Timmins,...

August 23, 2009 - COOPH (Come on Over – Plan Here) Strategy

Dr. Derek Wilkinson, director of the Institute for Northern Ontario Research and director of the Statistics Canada Branch Research Data Centre at Laurentian University, outlines the Elliot Lake Tracking Study in this presentation to "Paving the Way:...

August 12, 2009 - Paving the Way: Stabilizing local resource-based boom and bust economies

Paving the Way: Stabilizing local resource-based boom and bust economies, was held at the Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology, Porcupine Campus in Timmins, Ontario March 6-7, 2009. Guest speakers and delegates shared their ideas...

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