Seedling Rate - Waterton Lakes - Conservation and Restoration Project (Five needle pine)

Seedling Rate - Waterton Lakes - Conservation and Restoration Project (Five needle pine) Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis – listed as Endangered under the Species At Risk Act) and Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis- recommended as Endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) have undergone extensive population declines across much of their range due to a number of interacting factors. An introduced pathogen (blister rust - Cronartium ribicola) and an increasing severity of native beetle outbreaks (mountain pine beetle - Dendroctonus ponderosae) coupled with a reduced natural fire regime and changes in climate have all contributed to their decline. Seedling rate of planted seedlings is a management effectiveness measure, in part, used to assess the effectiveness of five-needle pine recovery actions in Waterton Lakes National Park. 2024-05-15 Parks Canada robert.sissons@pc.gc.ca Nature and Environmentwhitebark pinelimber pinemountain pine beetlesblister rustrestorationseedling rateAlberta Seedling Rate - Waterton Lakes - Five-needled pine data - 1CSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/258c2f60-35a6-40d6-a1f5-ed8830438b67/resource/beed23e9-7afc-4d67-a9c4-bd4fd0ce011b/download/waterton_lakes_np_core_5_needle_pine_seedling_rate_2009-2016_data.csv Seedling Rate - Waterton Lakes - Five-needled pine data dictionary - 2CSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/258c2f60-35a6-40d6-a1f5-ed8830438b67/resource/62f97b16-8ce7-405c-aff4-d277a7a87362/download/waterton_lakes_np_core_5_needle_pine_seedling_rate_2009-2016_data_dictionary.csv

Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis – listed as Endangered under the Species At Risk Act) and Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis- recommended as Endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) have undergone extensive population declines across much of their range due to a number of interacting factors. An introduced pathogen (blister rust - Cronartium ribicola) and an increasing severity of native beetle outbreaks (mountain pine beetle - Dendroctonus ponderosae) coupled with a reduced natural fire regime and changes in climate have all contributed to their decline. Seedling rate of planted seedlings is a management effectiveness measure, in part, used to assess the effectiveness of five-needle pine recovery actions in Waterton Lakes National Park.

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