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Forest Health Activity Area Expectations
Projects eligible under the Forest Health Activity Area means approved activities for insect or disease management (as opposed to the Current Fire and Pest Reforestation Activity which re-establishes forests after damage).
Forest Health Activity Area investments for managing forest health factors must only be made where it makes biological and economic sense to do so. Licensee obligations under the Forest Practices Code of BC Act, the Forest and Range Practices Act, their regulations, or a licence are not eligible.
Obligations for forest health vary by tenure type. Area based tenures are responsible for the detection and treatment of all pests within the licensee's area. Volume-based tenures are responsible for the protection of stands up to their achievement of free-growing status. Any activity (detection and treatment) occurring after the declaration of free-growing is an incremental, therefore eligible, activity under FIA.
Eligible activities include:
- bark beetle detection and treatment activities that are not obligatory within suppression beetle management units (BMUs);
- forest health surveys in post-free-growing stands and unmanaged stands;
- establishment and maintenance of forest health impact plots, treatment efficacy studies, and other operational trials that conform to the established trial and research protocol;
- forest health inventories (i.e. SPI, stem rust surveys, etc.);
- forest health data standard development; and
- other non-obligatory forest health treatments (i.e., white pine pruning, pop-up spacing, invasive plant treatments etc.).
Priority will be given to activities that are recommended by the Provincial Forest Health Strategy and TSA Forest Health Strategies.
All studies, operational trials and operationally directed, short-term research related to forest health on all tenures are considered incremental at this time and are also eligible. These activities include:
- impact assessments,
- maintenance and establishment of operational trials for testing the efficacy of new treatments or management techniques, and
- work required for obtaining federal registration of new pesticides.
Criteria for operational trial and research eligibility are outlined in the following document: Criteria for conducting Innovative Projects and Operational Trials. Trials meeting these protocol standards will be eligible.
More formal research is funded through the FIA Forest Science Program.
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