Tree Improvement Program Project Report 2006 / 2007

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Figure 1. Relationship between FGC Strategic Plan, FIA-TIP, and participants in various forest
gene resource management areas. ................................................................................................................... xi
Figure 2. Schematic of organizational relationships among FGC, FIA, SelectSeed and seed users. ................. 1
Figure 3. Percentage of Reforested Area Planted with Select Seed, by Management Unit ............................... 3
Figure 4. Levels of self-pollination in northern peripheral, central, and southern peripheral continuous
and disjunct populations of Sitka spruce. ....................................................................................................... 7
Figure 5. Locations of Pacific dogwood (left) and Garry oak (right). .............................................................. 7
Figure 6. Heights of coastal Douglas-fir at age 12 for seedlings in three genetic classes across four sites. ........ 8
Figure 7. Volume at age 11 at Sutton Creek versus damage at Mt. Cain in high-elevation families
progeny test. .................................................................................................................................................... 9
Figure 8. View of realized-gain test at Norrish (Harrison area). ...................................................................... 9
Figure 9. Armillaria fruiting bodies on artificially inoculated Interior Douglas-fir test seedling. ................... 14
Figure 10. Thirty-year-old Arizona provenance showing extreme maladaptation to the Trinity Valley site. . 14
Figure 11. Forward selections in the D’Arcy provenance in the Trinity Valley provenance test. .................... 14
Figure 12. Picking pollen from forward selected trees in the Trinity Valley range-wide provenance test ....... 14
Figure 13. Ten-year-old Series I Interior spruce second-generation progeny test near Prince George, BC. ......15
Figure 14. One-year-old Interior spruce Series II progeny test at Prince George Tree Improvement Station. . 16
Figure 15. Subapline larch growing at Pedley Pass near Invermere, BC. ........................................................ 16
Figure 16. Subalpine larch ex-situ gene conservation/breeding archive at Kalamalka Forestry Centre. .......... 17
Figure 17. Example of possible genetic worth responses of seedlots from two seed orchards based on two
climate variables. .......................................................................................................................................... 18
Figure 18. A controlled pollination crop is managed in the western redcedar seed orchard at Saanich
Forestry Centre to address the effects of selfing and to assist in midge control. ............................................. 21
Figure 19. The 2007 low elevation western hemlock crop at the Saanich Forestry Centre. ........................... 21
Figure 20. The Saanich Forestry Centre high elevation western hemlock orchard. ....................................... 22
Figure 21. Douglas-fir and western redcedar potted grafts. ........................................................................... 24
Figure 22. Installing drainage in orchard 233. .............................................................................................. 28
Figure 23. Crew applies pollen to Pli orchard 338. ........................................................................................ 30
Figure 24. PRT seed orchard staff in Fdi orchard 321. .................................................................................. 30
Figure 25. Collecting Pli using Girette. ......................................................................................................... 31
Figure 26. Squirrel activity in the unmanaged white pine orchard (607), Project 1503. ............................... 33
Figure 27. Temporary irrigation in the Ribes garden during white pine seedling inoculation, Project 411. .... 33
Figure 28. Burning to reduce the fire risk at Skimikin. Project 4057 E13. .................................................... 33
Figure 29. Mean daily western red cedar pollen catch for five regional Saanich peninsula sites. .................... 38
Figure 30. Mean daily western red cedar pollen catch at WFP lower reservoir site........................................ 38
Figure 31. Mean daily western red cedar pollen catch in WFP orchard 189. ................................................. 38
Figure 32. Mean daily western red cedar pollen catch in the TW Mount Newton orchard site 140. ............ 39
Figure 33. SMP on Lower Crown Cones Effect on Total Seed per Cone (TSPC). ........................................ 43
Figure 34. SMP on Lower Crown Cones Effect on Filled Seed per Cone (FSPC)......................................... 43
Figure 35. Control Cross Pollination on Lower Crown Cones Effect on Total Seed per Cone (TSPC). ........ 43
Figure 36. Control Cross Pollination on Lower Crown Cones Effect on Filled Seed per Cone (FSPC). ....... 43
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