Day 1: Wednesday, February 28, 2001

8:30 am — Welcome and Introduction to the workshop — Tory Stevens, MoELP, Ron Bronstein, FRBC and Rick Ellis, Chair

Session 1: Toward the future

8:45 am — Future Forest Management: An International & Forest Stewardship Perspective The need for procedures, tools and decision aids for incorporating habitat and biodiversity values in all planning and forest management processes. A vision for the future from an international and forest stewardship/certification perspective — Bill Bourgeois, Lignum Ltd.

9:15 am — Habitat Supply Decision Support Workshop Habitat Supply and the Timber Supply Review A vision for the future of habitat supply and the timber supply review — Gary Townsend, Timber Supply Branch, MoF

9:35 am — Modeling to Sustain Environmental Values: Forecasting Our Way to a More Certain Future — Mike Fenger, MoELP

10:20 am — Addressing Biodiversity and Habitat Supply in Forest Planning: An overview of the Forest Productivity Council Biodiversity Working Group’s strategy for developing improved information and tools — Jim Rochelle, Forest Productivity Council

10:40 am — Towards a More Strategic Approach to Forest Resources Inventory Information Investments An overview of the Forest Resource Inventory Council strategy for developing new tools and information — Keith Jones, Forest Resources Inventory Council

11:00 am — Introduction to the Aanalytical Tools — Rick Ellis, R. Ellis & Associates, Inc., Chair

Session 2: LRMP/management unit scale

11:15 am — Building Blocks of Plum Creek’s Award-winning Cascade Habitat Conservation Plan — Don Reimer, Plum Creek Timber

11:45 am — An Ecosystem Framework for Habitat Interpretations — Dave Clark, MoELP

2:00 pm — Forest-level Biodiversity Assessment on Weyerhaeuser’s Coastal Tenure How Weyerhaeuser is incorporating habitat and biodiversity into their management plans — Glen Dunsworth, Weyerhaeuser

2:30 pm — Habitat and Biodiversity Modelling in the Timber Supply Review How habitat and biodiversity considerations are being included in the Robson Valley TSA — Tory Stevens, MoELP

3:30 pm — How Habitat And Biodiversity Consideration Are Being Incorporated Into Western Forest Products Management Plans — David Byng, Western Forest Products

4:00 pm — Habitat Models and Landscape Planning: Patch Size, OGMAs and Uncertainty — Walt Klenner, MoF

Dinner Speaker — Multi-Species Analysis Over Large Areas: the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project — Martin Raphael, US Forest Service

Day 2: Thursday, March 1, 2001

Session 3: Landscape or watershed scale

9:00 am — From Stand-level to Herd Areas: Developing Multi-scale Models as a Planning Tool to Enhance Management of Northern Caribou — Scott McNay, Slocan Forest Products

9:30 am — A Mountain Caribou Strategy: The Role of Habitat Modelling — Harold Armleder, MoF

10:30 am — Habitat Modelling in the Invermere TSA — Eric Valdal, MoF

11:00 am — Modelling in support of the spotted owl decision — Ian Blackburn, MoELP

11:30 am — Forest Management Plan Habitat Supply Analysis Using habitat models in a forest plan: the Weldwood experience — Rick Bonar, Weldwood of Canada

1:30 pm — Habitat Modelling in the MacGregor Model Forest — Dwight Scott Wolfe, MacGregor Model Forest

2:00 pm — Habitat, Timber Supply and Natural Disturbance: Integration Using Landscape Simulation — Don Morgan, MoF

2:30 pm — Cumulative Effects: the Flathead Experience — Fred Hovey, MoF

4:00 pm — Summary of the Key Themes and Messages of the Workshop — Jane Perry, Jane L. Perry

Summary