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Long-term strategy to reduce the threat of mountain pine beetle - Mountain Pine Beetle in Alberta | |
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| "Long-term mitigation of large-scale epidemics can only be achieved through management strategies that reduce the susceptibility of lodgepole pine over the landscape"- Dr. Les Safranyik and Dr. Allan Carroll, CFS |
Alberta's pine forests are comprised of an abundance of over-mature trees susceptible to insect attacks and catastrophic wildfires. Approximately 60 per cent of Alberta's pine forests consist of trees aged 80 years and older.
Alberta created the Healthy Pine Strategy to address the amount of timber susceptible to mountain pine beetle and create a broad cross-section of different tree-age classes in the forest that will be more resilient to threats from destructive insects, disease and wildfire.
Under this strategy, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry has identified the most susceptible stands and worked with Forest Management Agreement (FMA) holders to amend their current management plans to reduce the amount of susceptible pine on their operating land-base by up to 75 per cent by 2026.
A total of sixteen Healthy Pine Strategy plans approved within the province will reduce the proportion of 80 to 120 year-old trees in Alberta's pine forests and replace them with vigorous new growth.
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Devon Belanger.
This information published to the web on February 29, 2016.
Last Reviewed/Revised on March 1, 2018.
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