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PRESCRIPTION #2

PINE & SPRUCE FOREST

This dry forest is dominated by trembling aspen when young, which is replaced by an open canopy of lodgepole pine and white spruce as it matures.

Pine and spruce forests have well-spaced trees and shrubs, mainly soopolallie and saskatoon.

Common forbs, grasses and low shrubs are fuzzy-spiked wildyre, kinnikinnick, and lingonberry.

Pine and spruce forests are found near the tops of hills or on sunny, south-facing slopes.

Soil Nutrient Regime (SNR)
P2_SNR
Landscape Position
PR-2-LP

PRODUCT TYPE: live stakes

A total of 1,000 stakes per hectare is recommended, ideally 500 deciduous trees and 500 shrubs.

Trees
  • Balsam poplar
Shrubs
  • Willow species

PRODUCT TYPE: seedlings

A total of 5,000 seedlings per hectare is required, ideally 1500 trees, 2000 shrubs, and 1500 herbs & grasses.

Trees

  • Trembling aspen

  • White spruce

Shrubs

  • Saskatoon

  • Kinnikinnick

  • Prickly rose

  • Bebb’s willow

  • Soopolallie

  • Common juniper

  • Lingonberry

  • Birch-leaved spirea

  • Velvet-leaved blueberry

Herbs & Grasses

  • Fireweed

  • Yarrow

  • Spreading dogbane

  • Tall bluebells

  • Canada goldenrod

  • Creamy peavine

  • American vetch

  • Common harebell

  • Heart-leaved arnica

  • Philadelphia fleabane

  • Wild strawberry

  • Northern bedstraw

  • Rosy pussytoes

  • Fuzzy-spiked wildrye

  • Bluejoint reedgrass

PRODUCT TYPE: seeds

A minimum of 35 kg/ha of seed mix is recommended, with an optional addition of 2,500 caps/ha of seed capsules. If additional seed capsules are used, the seed mix rate must remain at full strength (35 kg/ha).

The seed mix must include bluejoint reedgrass and, as native seeds become commercially available from sources with appropriate regional genetics (i.e., collected within Blueberry River First Nations Territory), the seed mix should incorporate a diverse mix of shrub, herb, and grass species listed in the prescription above.