Forestry & Environmental Management

People in the Maritime provinces are well-acquainted with the periodic flooding and other natural phenomena associated with a variable climate, from spring freshets to the occasional hurricane. With such grave threats posed to our ecosystems and communities, what measures are in place that allow for the planning and understanding of water and soils?

Soil maps that capture physical and chemical variations across the landscape in sufficient detail to inform operations do not exist. Our knowledge remains limited as to which areas are subject to flooding and water pooling and how these areas connect to one another through surface and subsurface channels.

This information is an important prerequisite not only for risk-and cost-reducing land management and field operations planning, but also for developing more sustainable practices for ecosystem and habitat management.

How can we leverage new tools and technologies to improve the practice of forestry and natural resource management to become more predictive and adaptive under changing socio-economic demands and climate conditions such as flooding?

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