{"id":82450,"date":"2020-04-29T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrnf.gouv.qc.ca\/nos-publications\/without-herbicides-quebec-historical-context-current-strategy-research\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:42:38","slug":"without-herbicides-quebec-historical-context-current-strategy-research","status":"publish","type":"cpt_publication","link":"https:\/\/mrnf.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/our-publications\/without-herbicides-quebec-historical-context-current-strategy-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Living without herbicides in Qu\u00e9bec (Canada): historical context, current strategy, research and challenges in forest vegetation management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published in <strong>European Journal of Forest Research 130: 117-133<\/strong><\/p> <p>Vegetation management is crucial to meeting the objectives of forest plantations. Following public hearing processes, chemical herbicides were banned on Crown forest lands in Qu\u00e9bec (Canada) in 2001. Release now mainly relies on mechanical treatments. Our objectives are to review the historical context and the research conducted over the past 15 years that has led to the province\u2019s current vegetation management strategy and to identify the major challenges of vegetation management being faced in Qu\u00e9bec in the context of intensive silviculture and ecosystem-based management. Research has led to an integrated management model without herbicides, adapted to the ecological characteristics of reforestation sites. The Qu\u00e9bec experience illustrates how, on most sites, vegetation management that is based on early reforestation, the use of tall planting stock and intensive mechanical release brings crop trees to the free-to-grow stage without the use of herbicides and without resulting in major effects on vegetation diversity. This vegetation management strategy is an asset in the implementation of ecosystem-based management. However, research demonstrates that mechanical release alone does not promote optimal crop-tree growth, due to rapid resprouting or suckering of competitors and competition from herbaceous species. Therefore, the current strategy poses important challenges in the management of plantations where the objective is to maximise wood production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in European Journal of Forest Research 130: 117-133 Vegetation management is crucial to meeting the objectives of forest plantations. Following public hearing processes, chemical herbicides were banned on Crown forest lands in Qu\u00e9bec (Canada) in 2001. Release now mainly relies on mechanical treatments. 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