Grants and Contributions:

The purpose of this agreement is to provide for the management and maintenance of the Alberta Foothills long-term lodgepole pine research installations, the scheduled re-measurement of those installations, the transfer of the resulting data to the Minister and other partners, and the analysis of these and related data to develop and validate models to predict wood quality from inventory variables for use by the forest industry for optimizing their management of the forest to provide maximum value from the resource.