537, boulevard Blanche, Baie-Comeau (QC) G5C 2B2
Tel: 418 295-2240
Fax: 418 589-5634

www.cedfob.qc.ca

• Management and sustainable development of the boreal forest
  
• Maximization of the forest biomass value chain
  
• Technology transfer
  
• Applied research
  
• Calculation of annual allowable cut
  
• Training in leading-edge technologies (forestry)
  
• Forest products processing
  
• Cartography of non-wood forest products
  
• Dendrochronology
  
• Development of adapted solutions for the Côte-Nord region
  
• Logging operations
  

• Development of multifunctional zoning approach for use in boreal forest
• Experimentation with various organic substrates for re-starting production of a sand and gravel quarry (conversion of an unproductive logging site)
• Trialling with various experiment designs for the planting of rapid-growth species, including hybrids
• Development of a software application – “Maître des Ponceaux” – for calculating culvert sizes
  
• Development of a Website for the “Carrefour recherche et développement forestier de la Côte Nord” on LINUX
  
• Development of a software application – “Optichemin” – for optimizing the routing of logging roads
• Use of pulp and paper biosolids to control heath plants
• Identification of the potential of non-timber forest products, including the Canada yew
  
• Use of fir and trembling aspen in second processing
• Characterization of paper birch and trembling aspen