The Mother Tree Project
Team Members:
Joshua Green
Rachel Green
Hannah Simard
Nava Simard
Eva Snyder
Alexia Constantino
Alex Girard
Amanda Asay
Camille DeFrenne
Lara Super
Affiliation:
Forestry Department, University of British Columbia
Advisors/Lead:
Professor Suzanne Simard
Jean Roach
Team Members:
Joshua Green
Rachel Green
Hannah Simard
Nava Simard
Eva Snyder
Alexia Constantino
Alex Girard
Amanda Asay
Camille DeFrenne
Lara Super
Affiliation:
Forestry Department, University of British Columbia
Advisors/Lead:
Professor Suzzane Simard
Jean Roach
Abstract:
Started in 2015 and funded by NSERC and FESBC, the Mother Tree Project is a large, scientific, field-based experiment that builds on prior research with the central objective of identifying sustainable harvesting and regeneration treatments that will maintain forest resilience as climate changes in British Columbia.
Led by Forestry Professor Suzzane Simard, the Mother Tree Project investigates forest renewal practices that aim to safeguard biodiversity, carbon storage, and forest regeneration as climate changes. The project assesses how seedlings from local, warmer, and colder climates respond to different levels of overstory tree retention, with a focus on seedling survival and growth.
Throughout the summers of 2017 and 2018 I completed forest inventory field work at forest case study sites across BC (Malcolm Knapp, Alex Fraser, Williams Lake, John Prince, Cranbrook, Castlegar, Nelson) and lab work processing field samples at UBC Forestry Department Facilities.
Project Results: