[CANUFNET] References for Ramial Chipped Wood \Bois Raméal Fragmenté

[Ethier Elaine]

Will look info with biologiste Mark Romer and other people at montreal botanical garden and IRBV.
Rameal wood chips are good to regenerate if provenance is known so yo not interfere with natural propagation in given Forest or urban forest species. For example RCW from Acer negundo is unwanted. Rcw Uses for combustible as well. Great for highway tree planting projects. 
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Elaine ethier 

iPhone, E. E.

> Le 2015-01-19 à 12:09 PM, Michael Richardson <mrtree at kos.net> a écrit :
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> Some very basic references associated primarily with decay mechanisms are:
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> Biodiversity in Deadwood
> Decomposer Basidiomycetes
> Ecology of Saprotrophic Basidiomycetes
> An Introduction to Wood Rotting Fungi
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> I would also look at the work of people such as Lynn Boddy and David
> Lonsdale and I would also look at the Veteran Tree Management Book
> available in Britain.
> 
> Contact me privately for more info.
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> Michael
>> Hello, I have current references from francophone Europe on this subject,
>> but is anyone in Canada using or studying this approach? Would love to
>> know.
>> Have you ever heard of Gilles Lemieux of Laval University and his research
>> in the 80s and 90's on Ramial Chipped Wood? Bois Raméal Fragmenté ?
>> Ramial Chipped Wood (RCW) is hardwood chipped branches and twigs lay down
>> as top mulch on a variety of landscapes at that, only every 3 years. There
>> are claims that RCW can boost soil fertility and replace fossil fuel
>> inputs (fertilizers and pesticides)[i]. There could be potentially be
>> markets in horticulture, agriculture and silviculture. An introduction to
>> RCW is "raw material consists of the twigs and branches of trees and woody
>> shrubs, preferably deciduous, including small limbs up to 7 cm. in
>> diameter. It is processed into small pieces (5-10cm) by chipping, and the
>> resulting product has a relatively high ratio of cambium to cellulose
>> compared to other chipped wood products. Thus, it is higher in nutrients
>> and is an effective promoter of the growth of soil fungi and of
>> soil-building in general." Wikipedia.
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>> I got this from the Permaculture side. Peter Bane says that "Young growth
>> on woody plants (up to about finger size) is very rich in enzymes,
>> vitamins, minerals and other nutrientsâ?¦with all species where this
>> ramial wood (or what the English coppicers call brash) is cut and applied
>> as mulch it breaks down into humus fairly rapidly. Rates of decay are of
>> course influenced by moisture and the degree of soil contact but we should
>> see woody plants as a prime source of fertilizer and mulch to maintain our
>> garden farms and fields.[ii]"
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>> [i] Lemieux, Giles, Laval University. "Fundamentals of Forest Ecosystem
>> Pedogenetics ", British Columbia Ministry of Forestry, Victoria, BC.
>> [ii] Bane, Peter, The Permaculture Handbook, New Society Publishers,
>> Gabriola Island  BC, 2012, Pg. 314
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