Locally Rooted, Future Focused
PRESCRIPTION #3
Black Spruce Forest
This moist forest is dominated by trembling aspen when young, which is replaced with black spruce and lodgepole pine as it matures.
Black spruce forests have well-developed tree, shrub, and herb layers, with the shrub layer being the densest.
The main shrub species is Labrador tea, and common herbs and low shrubs include lingonberry, bunchberry, and twinflower.
Black spruce forests are found near bottoms of hills, level ground or shady, north-facing slopes.
Soil Nutrient Regime (SNR)
Landscape Position
PRODUCT TYPE: live stakes
A total of 1,000 stakes per hectare is recommended, ideally 500 deciduous trees and 500 shrubs.
PRODUCT TYPE: seedlings
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.
Black spruce
Lodgepole pine
Trembling aspen
Labrador tea
Soopolallie
Prickly rose
Bebb’s willow
Green alder
Lingonberry
Dwarf birch
Velvet-leaved blueberry
Dwarf blueberry
Small bog cranberry
Fireweed
Yarrow
Canada goldenrod
Tall bluebells
Lindley’s aster
Philadelphia fleabane
Yellow rattle
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.