Boreal Forest Plant & Seed Technology Access Center

北方阿尔伯塔理工学院（NAIT）通过其位于阿尔伯塔和平河的北方研究所（BRI）为企业和社区提供应用研究和支持。北方森林是加拿大最大的公共资源。加拿大人民指望北方森林提供经济、环境和文化资源。北方森林的重要性表现在加强保护土壤和水的历史法规，以及针对生物多样性、野生动物栖息地和传统土地使用的法规。经济活动的增加和气候变化正在威胁着森林的可持续性及其提供加拿大人所期望的所有价值的能力。与我们种植和种植商业云杉和松树的能力形成鲜明对比的是，我们建立其他植物物种的能力受到知识、能力和熟练劳动力的限制。需要创新和有效的植物和种子技术来减少这些挑战的影响及其相关成本。植物和种子技术是北方阿尔伯塔的一个新兴领域，指的是种子预处理方法，包括化学处理和物理处理，如造粒。植物和种子技术还包括开发设备，以有效地收集，处理，测试和交付种子以及建立果园。需要有技术解决办法，将传统价值观纳入造林活动，以应对诸如收获区、进出道路、登陆地、灌木加工场等干扰，以及在严重野火或虫害爆发之后需要造林技术作为应对气候变化的一部分。

The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) provides applied research and support for businessesand communities through its Boreal Research Institute (BRI) located in Peace River, Alberta. The borealforest is the largest public resource in Canada. The people of Canada look to the boreal forest to provideeconomic, environmental, and cultural resources. The importance of the boreal forest is expressed in thestrengthening of historic regulations protecting soil and water, and in the additional of regulations addressingbiodiversity, wildlife habitat, and traditional land use. Increased economic activity and climate change arethreatening the sustainability of the forest and its ability to provide all of the values Canadians desire from it.In stark contrast to our ability to plant and grow commercial spruce and pine trees, our ability to establishother plant species is limited by knowledge, capacity, and skilled labour. Innovative and effective plant andseed technologies are needed to reduce the impact of these challenges and their associated costs. Plant andseed technologies is an emergent field in northern Alberta that refers to methods for pre-treating seeds,including chemical treatments, and physical treatments such as pelleting. Plant and seed technologies alsoincludes developing equipment to efficiently collect, handle, test and deliver seed as well as establishingorchards. Technology solutions are required for incorporation of traditional values in reforestingdisturbances such as harvest blocks, access roads, landings, in-bush processing sites, and after severe wildfireor insect outbreaks where reforestation technologies are needed as part of a response to climate change.