• Smith, C.R.
  Canadian Forestry Service
  
• Brown, G.
  Canadian Forestry Service
  

Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) has attributes that make it a candidate for increased fiber production under intensive management -- site, seeding habit, see production, germination and early growth are factors in its favor when natural or artificial regeneration methods are used. Ranging broadly across northern Ontario, it has historically been utilized for sawtimber, but in the last two decades, particularly, its use in pulp manufacture has brought utilization levels closer to the allowable cut in our commercial forests. Future management options should include genetic selection to improve growth characteristics, replacement of hardwoods on poor sites with jack pine where economically practicable, and juvenile spacing of naturally or artificially seeded stands, if we hope to increase yield and benefit from the growth potential of the large area of new forests now being established.