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Forest Practices > Forest Health > Aerial Overview Survey > Introduction
Forest Health – Aerial Overview Survey
Introduction
Since 1999, the B.C. Ministry of
Forests has surveyed the majority of the forested land in the province
using the classic sketch mapping technique known as the the overview
survey method. The purpose of the survey is to record and report
the general
trends in disturbance patterns across the provincial forested land
base (including provincial parks, private land, and Tree Farm Licences
but not Federal parks). The survey has been a key source of data
documenting the development of the current mountain pine beetle
outbreak in the interior of B.C. Data from the BC MOF survey is
also comparable to data collected from 1914 to 1995 by the Canadian
Forest Service's former Forest Insect and Disease Survey Unit (FIDS)
and to US Forest Service, Forest Health monitoring surveys. This
page provides links to the current and past conditions reported by the
survey, the survey methods and other supporting information.
Key products from the survey are:
- an annual report summarizing forest
health conditions
- digitized maps and tables describing
pest conditions by region and district (eventually being included in the
Land Data Resource Warehouse - LRDW)
- mountain pine beetle conditions
reported by Nov. 1st
Overview Survey Links
Last updated on
February 15, 2008
The contact for this web page is: tim.ebata@gov.bc.ca |
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