The ministry is responsible for the policies, legislation, regulations and services necessary for Alberta’s agriculture, food and forest sectors to grow, prosper and diversify; inspires public confidence in wildfire and forest management and the quality and safety of food; supports environmentally sustainable resource management practices; and leads collaboration that enables safe and resilient rural communities.
LanduseKN.ca is Alberta's hub for land use information.
The fRI Research Caribou Program carries out applied research, in partnership with industry and the Government of Alberta, to help maintain caribou herds in Alberta into the future.
Its mission comprises three activities: forecasting and monitoring responses to silvicultural treatments, facilitating the scientific development and validation of yield forecasts used by members in managing their tenures; and promoting knowledge, shared responsibility, and cost-effective cooper
The Forest History Program chronicles the natural and management history of the foothills forest.
The GIS program provides an exceptional level of GIS and data management support services for fRI Research.
The fRI Research Grizzly Bear Program provides knowledge and planning tools to ensure the long-term conservation of grizzly bears in Alberta.
The program, formerly known as the Natural Disturbance Program, looks at landscape change at a huge scale: Canada's boreal forest.
The Mixedwood Management Association officially came into existence in 2001 with eight member companies and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. Hosted by the Alberta Research Council for the first two years and then the University of Alberta until 2015, when it amalgamated with FGrOW.
The program carries out focused research on infestations of mountain pine beetle in Alberta.
In April of 2012, Tree Improvement Alberta became a consortium of industry and government representatives under fRI Research. The initial project the Tree Species Adaptation Risk Management project funded by Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
In 2011, the Fish and Watersheds Program refocused on hydrology and became the Water Program.
WESBOGY has been operating since 1987 and is now housed at the University of Alberta under the direction of its chair, Dr. Phil Comeau. WESBOGY became a project team of FGrOW on January 1, 2015.
This interpretation project develops and tests a new planning approach inspired by ecosystem-based principles.
Warmer weather is driving MPB range expansion, but how well will the beetle take hold in novel habitats?
While detection and control efforts are key to mitigating MPB, it's also important to improve how land managers respond after an attack.
How will a stand respond after MPB infestation, and what can the forestry industry do to help it regenerate?
What will happen to stands after mountain pine beetle infestations?
This project will examine hydrological and vegetation responses in the grey attack stage.
This is an FGrOW project involving permanent sample plots established between 2007–2015 to examine the ways hardwood (aspen) affect spruce development.
Protecting understory white spruce during removal of overstory aspen will ensure the utilization and release of advanced spruce growth, which will result in a shortened rotation, reduction of reforestation cost, and eventually an increase of timber production per unit of land.
Better models by sharing data between companies and government.
The Cutblock Inventory Classification Subcommittee was initiated in January 2015 to continue the work of the AFGO Strata Subcommittee.
This project focuses on calibrating a hydrological model, called Raven, for forest planning.
Named in honor of the "father of forest hydrology in Western Canada," this project seeks to capture the value of long-term research and data sets.
This project will give an overview of what we know about managing riparian areas in Alberta and identify knowledge gaps.
This project is part of the Southern Rockies Watershed Project.
This project on riparian mapping aims to improve management and operational efficiency by capitalizing on the high quality remote sensing data available in Alberta.
Created by the Healthy Landscapes Program, this is a tool for comparing human and natural disturbance.
This tool is an annotated database of the available fire regime research in and near Alberta.
A research project and tool that uses spatial simulation modelling to generate the historical range of landscape conditions across western boreal Canada.
The Landscapes in Motion project is here to discover some of the stories behind the landscapes in the southern Rockies of Alberta.
We're getting pretty excited about the U of A session on February 19 — and there's still time for you to sign up!… https://t.co/iUN1hu0gI1
