Quick Facts

• Estimated total area harvested in B.C. between 1851 and 1991, in hectares: 92 million. Estimated area of the productive forest harvested: 22 per cent.

• Year the Forest Service planted the first reforestation seedling: 1930.
  The two-billionth: 1989.
  The three-billionth: 1993.

• Land owned by the Crown in British Columbia: 94 per cent. Public forest lands that must be reforested after harvesting, by law: 100 per cent. More area has been planted than harvested each year since: 1986.

• Time to develop B.C.’s ecological classification system: 15 years.
  Investment: $30 million.
  Biogeoclimatic zones: 14.
  Distinct ecosystems identified to date: 1,100.

• Reference questions handled in 1993/94 by the ministry library: 8,321. Items circulated: 6,969.
  Database searches done: 274.
  Reprints distributed: 3,914.
  Inter-library loans: 1,780.

• Transactions processed in 1993/94 by the ministry’s central computer: 65 million.

• Harvesting field inspections
  1993.94: 30,195
  1992/93: 23,737
  Table C-12

• Allowable annual cut as of March 31, 1994 on lands regulated by the ministry, in cubic metres: 70.4 million. Harvested from those lands, in cubic metres: 66.2 million.

• Natural frequency of surface fires in B.C. forests, for ponderosa pine forests, in years: 5 to 15. For the Mountain Hemlock Zone, in years: 500.

• Total Research Program expenditures in 1993/94: $20.1 million.
  Table D-1

• Total Silviculture expenditures under all ministry-funded programs: $210.6 million.
  Table G-1*

• Not satisfactorily restocked (NSR) area in 1993/94, in hectares: 1.3 million. Projected NSR backlog in 2000, in hectares: 0.
  Table 6

• Estimated number of visits to B.C.’s public forest lands in 1993/94 by residents: 45 + million.
  Estimated number of visits by non-residents: eight million.

• In 1993/94 the Recreation program provided recreation opportunities at or on:
  - 1,395 recreation sites
  - 80 interpretive forest sites
  - 535 recreation trails
  - nine heritage trails

• Recreation maps distributed to the public in 993/94: 200,000.
  Overall expenditures (made by visitors) generated by recreation visits to B.C.’s forests: $2.4 billion.

• Total forest industry shipments
  1993/94: $13.8 billion
  1992/93: $11.1 billion
  Up: 24 per cent

• Newsprint production
  1993/94: 1.9 million tonnes
  1992/93: 1.5 million tonnes
  Up: 24 per cent

• Average price of northern bleached softwood kraft pulp
  1993: US$425 / tonne
  1992: US$550 / tonne
  Down: 29 per cent

• Average administered stumpage charges of major licences in 1993/94, per cubic metre: $13.75.
  Same charge in 1992/93: $9.22.
  Table C-2

• Sample plots ecologically assessed in 1993/94: 742. Assessed the year before: 652.

• Provincial forest land base re-inventoried, in hectares: 3.7 million. Number of map sheets: 253.

• Digitized map sheets updated in 1993/94 for depletions: 3,004. Collective area, in hectares: 45 million.
  Percentage of the provincial land base: about 50 per cent.

• Days of quality training provided by Forest Inventory staff in 1993/94: 2,831. Expressed as years: 7.76.

• Crown land area planted in 1993/94, in hectares: 94,728
  Planted in 1993/94, in hectares: 188,695.
  Table G-12

• Seedlings shipped in 1993/94 from the three ministry nurseries: 27 million. Shipped the year before: 17.5 million.

• Area affected by major forest insects in 1983/84, in hectares: 859,235. In 1993/94, in hectares: 641,250.
  Table G-18

• Cones processed for seed extraction at the Surrey Tree Centre, in hectolitres: 19,200. Seed produced in 1993/94 by provincial seed orchards: equivalent to 277.5 + million seedlings.

• Area treated in 1993/94 under FRDA II in all regions, in hectares: 36,235.
  The same number in 1992/93: 29,375
  Table G-7

• Percentage of 1993/94 FRDA II expenditures spent through the Sustainable Forest Development Sub-program: 83.4
  Table G-2

• Percentage of planted trees originating from seeds collected from wild stands: 90. Percentage from parent trees in seed orchards: 10.

• Seedlings planted on Crown land in 1993/94 to replace trees destroyed by fire, damaged by pests or harvested: 225.7 million.
  Table G-13

• Ministry-funded silviculture expenditures in 1983/84: $88.0 million.
  In 1993/94: $210.6 million.
  Table G-1*

• Species of seedlings planted throughout the province: 19.
  Species often planted at the same site: two or three.

• Seedlings planted in 1983/84: 106.4 million.
  Planted in 1993/94: 225.9 million.
  Table G-13

• Wildfires
  1993/94: 1,494
  1992/93: 3,805
  Norm: 2,800 / season
  Table E-2

• Timber burned by wildfires in 1993/94, in cubic metres: 1,009,300.
  Table E-4
  Timber damaged by forest pests and diseases in 1993/94, in cubic metres: 12,178.
  Table G-19

• Area burned by wildfires in 1993/94, in hectares: 4,709.
  Table E-3
  Area planted in 1993/94, in hectares: 189,557.
  Table G-12

• Average area burned by wildfires each year since 1983/84, in hectares: 54,689. Area burned in 1993/94, expressed as a percentage of that average: 8.6.
  Table E-3

• Wildfires caused by lightning
  1993/94: 41 per cent
  1992/93: 63 per cent
  Average: 48 per cent

• Aviation flight hours
  1993/94: 23,715
  1992/93: 44,289

• SBFEP registrants at March 31, 1994: 2,245. Market loggers: 83 per cent. Small sawmills or remanufacturing plants: 17 per cent.

• Seedlings planted under the SBFEP
  1993/94: 26.5 million.
  1992/93: 18.0 million
  Table K-5

• Person-years of employment generated by the SMFRA program in 1993/94: 23. Generated in 1992/93: 33.