Red Pine–pinus resinosa

image of a Red Pine forest.

Red Pine is a common tree throughout central and southern °ÄÃÅÓÀÀû, as well as the northwest. It has long needles (10 to 16 cm) that are sharp, dark green and grow in pairs.

Red Pine has traditionally been used to make poles and lumber, and has a strong pale red to reddish brown wood. Red Pine represents only slightly more than 1% of °ÄÃÅÓÀÀû’s annual harvest, and makes up 1% of the province’s growing stock volume.

Map of Red Pine relative occurrence

map of Red Pine distribution in °ÄÃÅÓÀÀû indicating low (light brown), moderate and high (dark green-brown) levels of relative occurrence.

Area and proportion of Red Pine in the AOU (area in hectares)

Statistic Crown Parks and protected areas Other Total
total area containing Red Pine 668,215 117,503 133,739 919,457
1-25% of stand 502,086 93,472 98,706 694,264
26-50% of stand 104,822 17,228 11,859 133,910
51-75% of stand 26,789 4,385 4,783 35,956
76-100% of stand 34,518 2,418 18,390 55,326
average proportion in all forest (%) 0.5 0.9 0.9 0.6
area of Red Pine working group 126,761 17,669 30,945 175,375

Growing stock volume of Red Pine in the AOU (volume in thousands of cubic metres)

Statistic Crown Parks and protected areas Other Total
Gross Total Volume 30,903 6,313 9,800 47,017
Net Merchantable Volume 22,564 4,793 7,272 34,629
Current Annual Increment 285 23 114 422

Red Pine working group area by age class

vertical bar chart of Red Pine forest area by age class distribution including brown for Crown, green for park and grey for other.