Forest Management Guide for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Landscapes (GLSL Landscape Guide)

This guide provides direction to forest managers on maintaining or enhancing natural landscape structure, composition and patterns that provide for the long term health of forest ecosystems in an efficient and effective manner.

This volume of the Landscape Guide addresses only the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest region of Ontario. Work on a similar document addressing the boreal forest is ongoing.

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Landscape Guide replaces existing landscape level direction for this forest region currently found in the Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation Guide, the White-tailed Deer Guide, the Pileated Woodpecker Guide, the Moose Habitat Guide, and the Marten Guide.

This new guide will make the forest management planning process more efficient and the direction provided by the guides more accessible, not only to MNR and the forest industry but also to the public. Equally as important, this new approach for setting strategic level direction in the forest management plans reflects the most recent scientific understanding of managing forest ecosystems, thereby ensuring the conservation of forest biodiversity in the province.

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Forest Management Guide for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Landscapes (Landscape Guide) (PDF, 1.3MB 69 pages)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN):  

• Print - 978-1-4435-3270-9  
• Portable Document Format (PDF) 978-1-4435-3271-6  

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Contact Information:

Phil Elkie
Ecology Forester
Telephone: (807) 343-4014
Email: phil.elkie@ontario.ca
 

• Ontario's Forest Management Guides