This Forest Practices Code Guidebook is presented for information only

It is not cited in regulation. The Forest and Range Practices Act and its regulations took effect on Jan. 31, 2004. This replaced the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and regulations. For further information please see the Forest and Range Practices Act.

Stand Management Prescription Guidebook

Second Edition

March 1999

Authority:

B.C. Ministry of Forests Act

Forest Act

Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act

Operational Planning Regulation

Table of Contents

CIP

General requirements

General objective
Administration

RPF signature and seal
Licensee signature
District manager signature

Prescription amendments
Life span of a stand management prescription
Role of the SMP in the planning process
Creating a stand management prescription
Steps for creating a stand management prescription

Identify and collect background information
Conducting the stand management prescription field work

SMP format

Location identification (Section A)

General objective
Information

Standards units
Treatment areas and multi-area SMPs
Grouping treatment areas into one standards unit
Separate standards units for treatment areas with one SMP

Management objectives and consistency with
other plans (Section B)

General objective
B-1. Higher level plans
B-2. Stand-level objectives

Timber management objectives
Wildlife management objectives
Watershed management objectives
Fisheries/Streams-wetlands management objectives
Range management objectives
Visual landscape management objectives
Recreation management objectives
Other resource values/interest

Ecological information, site and stand characteristics

General objective
Biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification
C-1. Area description
C-2. Current stand description
C-3. Forest health and protection

Forest health assessment
Filling out section C-3 of the SMP template
Protection

Target stand conditions and strategies

General objectives

D-1. Post-treatment standards

General objective

D-2. Special areas

General objective

D-3. Reserve areas

General objective

Mapping requirements

General objective
General mapping requirements
Map content

Administrative and area information

E. Prescription signatures

Appendix 1. Stand management prescription template

Figure 1. Graphical representation of SMP definitions for standards units, treatment areas, special areas and reserve areas, simplified to show definitions. (This is not a sample SMP map.)

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