{"id":2892,"date":"2023-11-25T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/?page_id=2892"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:01:31","slug":"variable-retention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/ns-triad\/silviculture\/variable-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Variable Retention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variable Retention is sometimes viewed as a slightly modified version of clearcutting.<br \/>\nVR was introduced as a practice for Crown lands in 2018 as an <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/natr\/forestry\/forest_review\/Retention-Guide-NS-Crown-Land.pdf\">interim practice<\/a> in the move from clearcutting to Irregular Shelterwood and other more ecological practices.<\/p>\n<p>VR is not amongst the silvicultural practices prescribed in the SGEM, but as of Nov 2023, it is still being practiced on Crown Lands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3DweoZo7kI\">Variable-Retention Harvesting<\/a> (YouTube)<br \/>\nPatrick Culbert &#8211; UBC Forestry. A variable-retention harvest at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OV1FlW-WD8\">Jaime Pinzon &#8211; Impacts of Variable Retention Harvesting on Biodiversity <\/a>(YouTube)<br \/>\n&#8220;Jaime Pinzon is a Research Associate with the University of Alberta&#8217;s Department of Renewable Resources. His presentation looks at how variable retention harvesting affects forest structure and biodiversity, based on work done with the EMEND project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variable Retention is sometimes viewed as a slightly modified version of clearcutting. VR was introduced as a practice for Crown lands in 2018 as an interim practice in the move from clearcutting to Irregular Shelterwood and other more ecological practices. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/ns-triad\/silviculture\/variable-retention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2896,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2892","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2892\/revisions\/2906"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}