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Background Nursery Services Section of BCTS is
responsible for ensuring a supply of seedlings
for the reforestation of Crown Lands administered
and replanted by the Ministry of Forests. This
includes lands which are re-stocked under BCTS, areas
destroyed by fire and pest damage or other
catastrophic losses, and backlog land. The Nursery Services section of
BC Timber Sales
was formed from the contract administration section of the former Nursery
and Seed Operations Branch, which in turn was created in 1994 from Nursery
Services section and the Tree Seed Centre, components of the former Silviculture
Branch.
Forest Seedling
Contracts for seedlings grown for Ministry
reforestation programs are administered by the branch headquarters in Victoria
in conjunction with 2 zone administration offices in Surrey and Vernon
with a technician in Prince George.
As part of the seedling contracting process,
Seedling Stock Specification and Commercial Equivalent
Rate tables are developed each year and are constantly being
updated.
Seedling culture, nursery pest management, and general nursery
expertise are extended to the industry by staff at
Nursery Services offices.
Nursery Services maintains an active role in systems which were originally developed by the Ministry to assist in various
seed and seedling
activities:
SPAR
(Seed Planning & Registry System) and
NSA (Nursery and Shipping
Administration System).
BCTS Nursery Services
maintains an active role in the
Forest Nursery Association
of B.C.
Activities
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