Download or read book Pre-commercial Thinning in Black Spruce written by Ontario. Northwest Science & Technology and published by Thunder Bay, Ont. : Northwest Science & Technology. This book was released on 1997 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins with a literature review on the habitat, reproduction and establishment, and stand development of black spruce. This is followed by a review of thinning as a silvicultural system, and thinning of black spruce in particular. Concludes with a report of a case study of the growth response of black spruce to various levels of thinning. The study area had been burned by wildfire and is located in the Tyrol Lake Demonstration Forest near Lake Nipigon, Ontario.