- Determine the state of the hardwood resource in New Brunswick (N.B.).
- Improve inventory process in N.B. to provide the important characteristics of hardwood stands and trees required to formulate strategies at all scales.
- Create a process for better prediction of volume distribution by species in present and future stands.
- Revise stratification methods for hardwood-dominated stands to attain operational efficiency.
- Develop methodology and criteria to characterize tree quality.
- Produce eligibility matrices for existing stands, based on a tree quality determination process.
- Recommend the research needed to fill in knowledge gaps.
- Develop and mobilize knowledge and solutions related to the use of silviculture as a climate change adaptation and mitigation tool.
- Inform forest stakeholders of the potential impacts of climate change on forests and enable them to respond to these changes by providing the proper silviculture techniques and tools
- Determine which regimes, treatments, and prescriptions to model to increase growth and yield.
- Determine response patterns to silvicultural treatments in our region.
- Improve our capacity to model the effects of silviculture.
- Revisit silviculture systems for hardwood-dominated stands to align them with long-term economic profitability.
- Develop forestry practices and silvicultural treatments that will regenerate desired species and discourage undesirable species like beech.
- Synthesize knowledge already gained in this area, Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
- Quantify the effects of silvicultural treatments on growth in even-aged and uneven-aged stands.
- Better understand the dynamics of regeneration of species after treatment.
- Determine how to reduce the cost of forest operations during light-harvest treatments.
- Evaluate the effects of forest operations (harvesting) in terms of damage to residual stems.
- Find ways to reduce harvesting costs by treating more candidate areas in the same sector.
- Redefine silvicultural treatments based on the value chain.
- Learn how to maximize the value of stems harvested.
- Make forestry operations more profitable.
