Ontario Tree Marking Guide

The Ontario Tree Marking Guide is intended to serve as a companion volume to: A Silvicultural Guide for the Tolerant Hardwood Forest in Ontario, and A Silvicultural Guide to the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Conifer Forest in Ontario. It is also a support document for the other silvicultural guides published by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The intent of the guide is to support delivery of the Provincial Tree Marker Training Program, to provide background knowledge for prescription writers, and to provide operational guidance to tree markers who employ the partial cut silvicultural systems in Ontario. It is the tree and stand characteristics in relation to timber, wildlife, and other ecosystem management objectives that normally determine the appropriate prescription. In particular, the guide can be used by all natural resource managers, specialists, and technicians as a source of information that, together with local knowledge and experience, can form the basis of silvicultural tree marking prescriptions within the context of the forest management planning process.

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