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- Trees Canada Resources
- Canadian Forest Service Resources
- CNESST Resources
- BNQ Resources
- Other resources
Resources published by Trees Canada
- Cultiver des villes vertes : Guide pratique de la foresterie urbaine au Canada
- Growing Green Cities: A Practical Guide to Urban Forestry in Canada
Resources published by the Canadian Forest Service
Technical guides for monitoring urban trees. The translation was completed by the Canadian Forest Service, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service Research and Development.
A series of training videos on YouTube explaining the practical guide and the resource guide (5 videos, each 5 to 8 minutes long). These videos were made with support from the Forest Service Region 5.
Links to the bulletin L'ÉCLAIRCIE of the Canadian Forest Service - Laurentian Forestry Centre
- On the leaves of the zigzag elm sawfly
- Ten years of knowledge creation on the spruce budworm epidemic
- A threat at the borders: oak wilt caused by Bretziella fagacearum
- Mild spells and cold waves: a challenge for the spruce budworm?
- Spruce budworm enemies uncovered by their DNA
- Where do you come from, little spongy moth?
- The emerald ash borer: a difficult insect to monitor!
- Asian spongy moth: insecta non grata in Canada
- The emerald ash borer: does it ring a bell?
- The emerald ash borer: fight not to cut down
- Forest genomics: finding an answer to diseases
- Butternut: what are its chances against canker?
- White pine blister rust: knowledge, control, and innovation
- Anatomy of a successful pruning
- L'Éclaircie: The René-Pomerleau Herbarium: a reference in mycology
- The René-Pomerleau Herbarium... the database
- Compartmentalization: a tree defense mechanism
- Pruning, or the art of intervening at the right time
CNESST Resources and Accident Reports
Accident Reports
- Death of a worker during tree felling - April 2024
- Death of a worker during pruning work in Trois-Rivières - October 2023
- Death of a volunteer worker hit by a tree trunk in Saint-Sixte - March 2022
- Death of a manual feller from Entreprise forestière Claude Gravelle S.E.N.C. on Île-du-Grand-Calumet – November 2021
- Death of a manual feller employed by Lauzon – Exclusive wood products following a tree fall in Lac Cayamant – July 2020
- Worker trapped in a tree stump grinder – March 2020
- Electrocution of a climber-pruner from the company Patrick Turgeon (Arb’attage) in Québec - May 2019
- Pruner's assistant fatally struck by a branch in Gatineau
Health and Safety Prevention Info
Resources from the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ)
The following documents are available for purchase on the BNQ website.
The cost is $25 for purchasing the standard in PDF format and $75 for a network license (multiple users).
- Standard 0605-200 - Arboricultural and horticultural work
- Standard 0605-100 - Landscaping maintenance using plants