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For the sustainable development of forest land, as recently prescribed by the Canadian Forest Strategy, a land classification project in northern Newfoundland was initiated to support the local forest management activities. The method adopted here is a modification of the Canadian Committee for Ecological Land Classification’s (CCELC) system, and it applies various levels of mapping to uniform areas based on geomorphology, soils, vegetation, climate, water, and fauna.
In this study, all CCELC levels were mapped; resulting maps were digitized and imported into a Geographic Informations System (GIS). The GIS data base contained the following maps: 1) digital terrain model, 2) bedrock geology, 3) surficial geology, 4) forest inventory, and 5) various levels of the ecological land classification, including Vegetation Types at the lowest level. In addition to the mapping, mensurational data were analyzed to provide stand and stock tables for each of the forest types, including growth curves that could be entered into specific forest growth modelling systems to predict wood supply scenarios based upon different management interventions.
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Bajzak, D., Roberts, B.A. (1996). Development of Ecological Land Classification and Mapping in Support of Forest Management in Northern Newfoundland, Canada. In: Sims, R.A., Corns, I.G.W., Klinka, K. (eds) Global to Local: Ecological Land Classification. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1653-1_16
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