Author: Pinno, Brad

Big congratulations to Jenn Buss who successfully defended her MSc on January 17, 2020. Jenn studied seedbanks and nutrients in reclamation soil stockpiles and mature forests. The seedbank work in particular involved a lot of field work to collect the Read More …

Recently, our research lab group took a field trip to look at some operational silviculture research. Sanatan showed us some of the lodgepole pine commercial thinning trials he is involved with and we also toured the Huestis demonstration forest. Great Read More …

Forestry Fall Field School was success again this year! 18 first year Forestry students got the opportunity to spend a week out in the bush around Hinton and Whitecourt learning about everything forestry ranging from tree identification to harvesting operations Read More …

Jenn, Kaitlyn, Brea, and I attended the 2019 American Society of Mining and Reclamation Conference in Big Sky, Montana last week. 2 posters and 2 talks from our group along with 2 grad student awards. Congratulations Kaitlyn and Jenn! Very Read More …

Congratulations Steph on your successful MSc defense! It has been great working with you the past few years and having you in the lab group. Now on to your next chapter as a Plant Ecologist at Spencer Environmental.

Congratulations Steph on your first publication! Great work published in New Forests (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11056-018-09698-2) looking at suckering of aspen seedlings on an oil sands mine reclamation site north of Fort McMurray. This research shows that 6-year old aspen seedlings are capable Read More …

Our whole lab group went out to Grey Nuns White Spruce Park in St. Albert yesterday to look at white spruce regeneration issues. Lots of blowdown taking down the big trees and bunnies eating the newly planted ones. But there Read More …

I had the opportunity to attend the Canadian Institute of Forestry Annual Meeting in Grande Prairie this week. Lots of great talks and discussion of important forestry issues including a session on what the future of forestry holds. But of Read More …

Forestry fall field school for first year students and others entering the forestry program was a huge success! 6 days out in the bush in western Alberta with 17 students and 4 instructors. We discussed and experienced forest ecology, harvesting Read More …

Steph and Ryan just finished up the field work for Steph’s MSc project on natural regeneration of black spruce and aspen after the Fort McMurray fire. Looks like fun! This last piece of fieldwork was to look at the seed Read More …