Stand Establishment & Treatment

Stand Treatments (to Meet Timber Objectives) Activity Area Expectations

Stand treatments to meet timber objectives are silviculture treatments in juvenile and immature stands to improve their volume and/or quality. They typically include spacing, fertilization and pruning treatments, along with associated surveys.

Investment decisions in the stand treatments activity area should be consistent with the management unit’s strategic plans and in particular should be oriented to:

• maintaining or increasing current and future harvest levels through strategic implementation of stand tending treatments;
• maintaining or enhancing wood quality to ensure forests have sustained value production; and
• managing habitat and/or mitigating habitat impacts and ensuring that second growth timber supply is not constrained by non-timber objectives.

In achieving the objectives, treatments will be effective, cost-efficient, and employ quality field procedures using existing standards and guidelines where possible.

The table below shows maximum recommended costs for spacing, pruning and fertilizing. These costs may be exceeded with written rationale as detailed in Cost Caps.