Ministry Scientific Publications

Reports / Series

Reports by Location:

• Ministry of Forests and Range
• Ministry of Environment
• Integrated Land Management Bureau (MAL)
• Land Information BC
• Other Agencies

Royal Commissions of Inquiry, Forestry

Videos (available for download)

Reports / Series

• Annual Reports, Government of British Columbia
  • BC Government (all Ministries) Budgets / Service Plans
  • Ministry of Environment - 1914-2001
    Note: List includes numerous Ministry name changes.
  • Ministry of Forests & Range - 1911 to present
    • Forest Sciences Program

• Biodiversity Publications Catalogue

• Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification
  • BEC site
  • Biogeoclimatic Maps
  • EcoGen - Predictive Ecosystem Mapping
  • Ecosystems of British Columbia (Book - full text)
  • TEM Alternatives Task Force

• Bella Coola Local Resource Use Plan
• Biometrics Information
  • Handbooks
  • Pamphlets
• Certification, Forest Management and Forest Products

• Environment Trends in British Columbia, 2002
• Extension / Technical Reports - Ministry of Forests & Range
  • Coast Region
  • Nelson Region Forest Sciences
  • Northern Interior
  • Research Branch, HQ
  • Southern Interior
• Forest Cover Maps
  • Note - replaced by the BC Vegetation Series available for purchase from CanadaMapStore.
• Forest Act (British Columbia)
  • 1912 - Forest Act of 1912
  • 1948 - Forest Act [RSBC 1948 - Chapter 128]
  • 1978 - Bill 14, 3rd reading
  • 1979 - [RSBC 1979 - Chapter 140]
  • 1996 - [RSBC 1996 - Chapter 157]
    • Ministry of Forests Act
      1979 - [RSBC  1978 - Chapter 27]
       
• Forest Inventory Audit Reports
• Forest Practices Code
  • FPC Transition Training
  • Guidebooks
     
• Forest, Range, & Resource Analysis Reports
   
• Glossary (MoFR)
  • Forestry Acronyms & Initialisms
  • Forestry Terms
  • Information Management Group

• Growth and Yield
  • Growth & Yield Monitoring
  • Publications (Forest Practices Branch Growth & Yield site)
  • Southern Interior G & Y Cooperative
     
• History, BC Forest Service
   
• Log Market Reports (British Columbia)

 
• Maps
  • BC Forest Regions & Districts
  • BC Tree Farm Licenses & Timber Supply Areas

• Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in British Columbia
• Ministry of Environment
  • Recent Publications

• Plant Species Codes

 
• Reconnaissance Reports and Reconnaissance Survey Files
   
• Research Notes
  • Forest Sciences Program  (MFR)
  • Long-term Soil Productivity study (LTSP) (MFR)

• Research Reports
• Resources Information Standards Committee (RISC)
• Seeing the Forest Beneath the Trees
• MFR Service Plans (formerly Performance Plans)
• Silviculture Notes (MFR - Forest Practices Branch)
• Site Index Estimates by Site Series (SIBEC)
• Southern Interior Forest Region publications (MFR)
• State of British Columbia's Forests
• State of the Environment reports
• Stormwater Planning: a Guidebook for British Columbia
• SX Trials (MFR)
• Tree Book: learning to recognize trees of BC
• Tree Improvement Branch, Extension Notes
• Vegetation Resources Inventory
• Windthrow Assessment and Management in British Columbia
• Working Papers

Reports by Location

Ministry of Forests and Range

• Aboriginal Affairs Branch
• BC Timber Sales

• Economics and Trade
• Forest Analysis Branch
  • Forest Inventory Reports
• Forest Practices Branch
• Forest Practices Code
• Range Branch
  • Manual

• Research
  • Coast Region publications
  • Northern Interior Forest Region publications
  • Southern Interior Forest Region publications

• Resource Tenures and Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Geomatic Data
  • Timber Tenures

• Revenue Branch
• Tree Improvement Branch

Ministry of Environment

• Environmental Protection Division

  • Air Quality

    • Codes, Criteria, etc.
    • Legislation & Regulations
    • Reports & Management Plans

  • Endangered Species and Ecosystems

  • Emergency Response Plans

  • Parks

    • Protected Areas Management Planning

  • Public Safety and Prevention Initiatives

    • Municipal Liquid Waste
    • Municipal Solid Waste
      
      

  • Water

    • Aquifers in BC
• Dam Safety
• Floodplain Mapping
• Groundwater
  • Observation Wells
• Well Protection Toolkit
• River Forecast & Snow Surveys
• Water Inventory Data Management System
• Water Licensing

• Environmental Stewardship Division

  • BC Conservation Data Centre - data on species and ecosystems at risk in BC.
  • BC Parks
  • Fish and Habitats
  • Fish and Wildlife Recreation & Allocation - information on fishing, & hunting (including licensing).
  • see also FinFish Aquaculture (Ministry of Agriculture, Food, & Fisheries)
  • Wildlife Publications

MoAL - Integrated Land Management Bureau

Mapping

• Base Mapping & Geomatic Services Branch
  • Base Mapping Online Store
  • BC Geographical Names

Integrated Land and Resource Registry

• Index - information on 250 different legal interests on Crown land (tenures, regulated uses, land and resource use restrictions, and reservations), visually represented on a map.

Land Information BC (includes some older MSRM webpages)

• BC Land Title and Survey Authority
• Land and Resource Registries Portal - information regarding titles and encumbrances on private lands, crown lands and surface and subsurface resource rights.

Reports by Other Agencies

• Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation
  
  

Royal Commissions of Inquiry, Forestry

• Timber and Forestry (1909 -1910) - Fred J. Fulton, Chairman

• The Forest Resources of British Columbia (1945) - The Honourable Gordon McG. Sloan, Commissioner

• The Forest Resources of British Columbia (1956) - The Honourable Gordon McG. Sloan, Commissioner
  Volume 1  & Volume 2

• Timber Rights and Forest Policy in British Columbia (1976) - Peter H. Pearse, Commissioner
  Volume 1 & Volume 2 

• Forest Resources Commission - The Future of our Forests (1991) - A.L. (Sandy) Peel, Chairman  
  -  Background Papers

Last updated April 2010.