Habitat Supply Documents

Technical and general documents on Habitat Supply and related topics.

• Silviculture Guidelines and Practices for Maintaining or Recruiting Key Habitat Objectives
• Grizzly Bear Habitat in Managed Forests
• Stand Structure Modeling Project
• Assessing the Effects of Forest Management on Wildlife: The Models
• A Strategy for Habitat Supply Modeling in BC
• Habitat Supply Modeling in BC – Draft Report
• Habitat Supply Modeling Survey
• Incremental Silviculture of Lodgepole Pine
• Mushroom Habitat Studies
• Prognosis EI

Silviculture Guidelines and Practices for Maintaining or Recruiting Key Habitat Objectives

• Silviculture Guidelines and Practices for Maintaining or Recruiting Key Habitat Objectives, Feb. 2004. (pdf, link to MoE site)

Grizzly Bear Habitat in Managed Forests: 

• Grizzly Bear Habitat in Managed Forests: Silviculture Treatments to Meet Habitat and Timber Objectives
  (link to Forestry Division Services, Production Resources Extension Note 54)

Stand Structure Modeling Project: 

Prognosis BC and TASS were reviewed with respect to their potential use in modeling stand structure attributes Four main shortcomings were noted that will be addressed in future years.

• Report in Acrobat PDF format (689 k, posted July 17, 2001)

Assessing the Effects of Forest Management on Wildlife: The Models

This report reviews characteristics of computer models used or potentially useful for predicting wildlife values in British Columbia’s forests, as of March 2000. Models useful at both the stand scale and the landscape or management unit scale are reviewed.

• Report in Acrobat PDF format (62 k, posted June 12, 2001)

A Strategy for Habitat Modeling in British Columbia - Habitat Modeling Steering Committee

• HSM Final Project Report Volume I  (pdf, 941 k, posted June 7, 2002)
• Volume II - Appendix (Word, 965 k, posted June 7, 2002)

Habitat Supply Modeling in British Columbia – Draft Report

“In this document, I summarize my views of habitat supply modeling, current forest habitat supply model development in British Columbia, and recommendations on the development of habitat supply modeling tools. This draft is not an extensive review of current activities but only those of which I am currently aware. However, I hope that this document evolves from my views and awareness to a fuller document that incorporates the views and awareness of the habitat supply modeling and user community in British Columbia. I expect this summary to evolve into components of a web site rather than for it to exist as a stand alone document. This document is meant to serve as an information item for MOF Timber Supply Branch, the Forest Productivity Council Biodiversity Working Group and the MOF/MELP Habitat Supply Modeling Committee.” – Jeff Stone, Ministry of Forests.

• Report in Acrobat PDF format (245 k)

Habitat Supply Modeling Survey by Diana Demarchi (October 2000)

The following files comprise a DRAFT report on habitat models developed or in use in BC or neighboring jurisdictions. It was compiled from information from conversations with modelers and practitioners throughout BC, Alberta and the Pacific Northwest. It is hoped that this information will be useful to those looking for appropriate models for specific questions or as a source of contacts. This report will remain in draft form until the end of the fiscal year (March 31, 2001) at which point any appropriate comments and corrections received will be incorporated into the report and the report will be reposted as a final version. Each section of this report can be downloaded in either PDF or Microsoft Excel or Word format. Reviewers: Please make changes electronically using the revision tool so that changes are highlighted. Send the modified files to Tory Stevens by March 31, 2001.

• Report in Acrobat PDF format (354 k)
• Report in Microsoft Word 97 (Zipped 95 k)
• Report Data in Excel 97 (Zipped 33 k)

Incremental Silviculture of Lodgepole Pine

Managing and conserving forests for biological diversity has become a major objective for forested landscapes in North America. This objective may be achieved by a combination of practices that provide a variety of forest successional stages (including old growth), tree species, stand structures and silvicultural treatments in a mosaic of habitats across a landscape. Perhaps the greatest opportunity to diversify forests lies in the vast areas of young second-growth lodgepole pine stands which are amenable to silvicultural practices that accelerate ecosystem development.

This brochure reports on two ongoing studies:

1. Ten-year results in pre-commercially thinned stands; and
2. Five-year results in thinned and fertilized stands.

• Incremental Silviculture of Lodgepole Pine brochure in Acrobat PDF format (285 k)

Mushroom Habitat Studies

• Timber Harvesting Plan for the Blackwater Pine Mushroom Management Area: 25 pages : Pine mushroom ecology and forest harvesting practices – logic, methods and harvest unit layout considerations for the 867-ha Blackwater Pine Mushroom Management Area

• Timber Harvesting Plan for the Cranberry Pine Mushroom Management Area: 17 pages : TSA-level timber supply analysis of the tradeoffs between forest management for timber production compared with management for both timber and pine mushroom production.

• YKW Pine Mushroom Map Verification Report  (pdf, 1 MB, posted March 31, 2006)  This report presents the findings of a pine mushroom (Tricholoma magnivelare) habitat map verification project implemented in the West Chilcotin. The predictive pine mushroom habitat map was developed in 2003 for the area covered by the Itcha/Ilgachuz and Charlotte Alplands Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping. The map was intended for use in; landscape planning, pine mushroom management and pine mushroom habitat modelling. Determining the reliability/accuracy of the map to predict pine mushroom presence is therefore important.

Prognosis EI

• Prognosis EI: A Detailed Watershed-level Environmental Indicators Model

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