Business Centre, Victoria, for the large task of word processing several early vers ions of the report, Last, and most importantly, the authors gratefully B. Laishley for editorial review and production coordi acknowledge the many balsam poplar and aspen nation, E. Schiewe for her excellent typesetting of such researchers in Canada and the United States whose cited a complex manuscript, and D. O. [...] Related Reviews and Other Information Sources ECOLOGY OF ASPEN AND BALSAM POPLAR 6 Taxonomy of Aspen and Balsam Poplar within the Genus Populus 6 Origin of the Name Populus. [...] Key to five main types of wood defect in aspen 78 3 1. The most common decay-causing fungi, with percentage of infections in trunk and butt, on aspen and balsam poplar in the Slave Lake area of Alberta 79 32. [...] The and balsam poplar in the ecosystems of the main zone of 1 990-95 strategic plan for Forestry Canada's Northwest commercially important aspen-balsam poplar from Region also emphasizes the importance of these boreal southern Manitoba to northeastern British Columbia hardwoods by the proposed development of an Aspen (Fig. [...] The ecological section of this review bene with the Council's 1985 annual meeting and followed by fits from the large amount of infonnation generated by the proceedings of the Council's 1988 meeting, which aspen researchers beyond the prairie provinces, notably focused on management and utilization of Alberta's Ontario, the Lake States, the Rocky Mountain states of aspen and balsam poplar resourc.