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    Review of plantation assessment In New Brunswick
    (University of New Brunswick, 1980) McCarthy, Patrick J.
    The New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources started its artificial reforestation program in 1972. With such a major program, involving the production and planting of 30 million seedlings annually, an assessment program has been instituted to check on both the development and survival of the plantations. The combination of techniques chosen is the staked-point and plot-count methods, started in 1977 as an ongoing program. Two plantations in northern New Brunswick are used as examples to illustrate the method of assessment surveys carried out and initial reports on the factors affecting survival. The average survival rate for these two plantations is over 91 percent the first year. The sampling intensity in 1977 was 0.19 percent of the total area. The major abiotic factor affecting survival is planting quality; not heeled in, angle greater than 45 degrees, and planted too shallow.