Great Lakes Forestry Centre

The Great Lakes Forestry Centre (GLFC) is one of five research centres within the Canadian Forest Service. Its research priorities include:

Forest pests

Improving the identification, understanding and management of native and alien insects and diseases, using spatial analysis and current biological methods including genomics. Research is aimed at developing biological control methods and strategies, understanding insect biology, improving sampling techniques, and understanding the pathways by which alien pests spread. GLFC also maintains an insect-rearing and quarantine facility–a one-of-a-kind research facility that employs clean-room technology–to support research into invasive and native insects.

Climate change and forest fire studies

Examining the lasting effects of climate change and forest harvesting on forests and watersheds through long-term studies, such as the one at the Turkey Lakes Watershed. Researchers are using spatial analysis to examine the role of climate in natural systems and the impacts of and adaptations to climate change. Work also includes developing knowledge of fire behaviour to advance the use of fire management tools that can, for example, help minimize the impacts of disaster fires by providing real-time maps of fire hazard conditions.

Forest ecosystem research

Generating knowledge of the impacts of human-induced disturbances on forest ecosystems, and informing the development of ecosystem-based forest management policy to sustain ecological integrity. Work includes examining the ecological impacts and economic analysis of biomass harvesting on site productivity, soil nutrients and biodiversity.

Address

1219 Queen Street East
Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada
P6A 2E5

Phone: 705-949-9461
Fax: 705-541-5700

Find out more

• AshNet
• Canadian Fire Effects Model
• CFS-GLFC lectures
• e-Bulletin
• GLFC insect collection
• Insect Production and Quarantine Laboratories
• Ontario Research Sites
• The TOPIC network: Traits of Plants in Canada database (TOPIC) and the Canadian Repository of Invertebrate Traits and Trait-like Ecological Records (CRITTER)
• List of GLFC publications
• List of GLFC Employees