Techman Engineering Ltd. was jointly commissioned by the Reclamation Research Technical Advisory Committee and the Oil Sands Environmental Study Group to obtain state-of-the-art information on the propagation of selected woody plants. The purpose was: a) to obtain information on the propagation of certain native and exotic woody plants selected by the client; b) to present this information in form which both provides a summary of each reference reviewed and synthesizes the information at the species level by method of propagation; and c) to make recommendations for further studies on selected species.