Nova Scotia's Provincial Tree...Red Spruce (Picea rubens)

The Department of Natural Resources monitors Nova Scotia's forests through forest inventories designed to measure changes to the resource as well as reports on primary and secondary forest products from information gathered through the Registry of Buyers.

Forest Inventory Reports

• Forest Biomass of Living, Merchantable Trees in Nova Scotia
  
  
• Ten Year Periodic Annual Increment For Nova Scotia Permanent Forest Inventory Plots 1990-95 to 2000-05
  
  
• Hardwood Tree Grading Field Guide
  
  
• Photo Interpretation Specifications - February 2006
  
  
• Forest Inventory Introduction
  
  
• Forest Inventory Tables (1999)
  
  
• Nova Scotia Forest Inventory based on Permanent Sample Plots measured between 1999 and 2003. (Adobe Acobat PDF -1.5 mb)
  
  
• Nova Scotia Forest Inventory based on Permanent Sample Plots measured between 1994 and 1998. (Adobe Acobat PDF - 203 k)
  
  
• Forest Inventory Permanent Sample Plot Field Measurement Methods and Specifications (604k pdf)- UPDATED
  
  
• Ten Year Periodic Annual Increment For Nova Scotia Permanent Forest Inventory Plots 1980-85 to 1990-95 (153k pdf)