College Boreal and Xstrata Nickel signed a cooperation agreement on March 11, officially committing to the development of an experimental forest.
The 2,100 acre forest will provide natural resources students from College Boreal a natural laboratory setting in which they will be able to conduct a variety of experiments.
The initiative is one of a series that both partners entered into in 2009, through which they have committed to protecting the bio-diversity of Northern Ontario.
The creation of the experimental forest represents the second phase of the project which College Boreal entered into two years ago when they inaugurated College Boreal's Xstrata Nickel Biodiversity Applied Research Centre, said Denis Hubert-Dutrisac, president of College Boreal.
“Our natural resources students not only benefit from a new laboratory and ultra-modern greenhouses that bring our production capacity up to 5000,000 seedlings every year,” he said, “but can also enrich their learning through valuable practical experience at the same time contributing to the development of our forests, our natural heritage.”
The initiative will be situated on properties owned by Xstrata Nickel in Dowling, (Levack) and Norman, (Capreol).
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