Strategy Type

Description

Type 1

·           Uses existing TSR summary information to identify issues and opportunities for silvicultural investments

·           Uses stand level analysis and, based on expert opinions, factoring estimates up to the forest level.

·           Produced interim management unit level specific harvest level and timber quality objectives.

·           Based on expert opinions, provides plausible targets and strategies and silviculture regimes that can be used as inputs in the more in depth Type 2 analysis.

Type 2

·           Builds a base case that closely matches the TSR

·           Uses other readily available information to augment the TSR base case

·           Includes in-depth forest level modelling and analysis to develop silviculture strategies and funding needs

·           Produces management unit level specific harvest level and timber quality objectives

Type 3

·           Similar to the Type 2, but also includes Habitat Supply modelling and analysis

Type 4

·           Builds a base case that may differ from the latest TSR base case

·           Uses other readily available information to update and augment the TSR base case

·           Includes in-depth forest level modelling and analysis to develop silviculture strategies and funding needs

·           Produces management unit level specific harvest level and timber quality objectives.

·           Provides direction for tree species selection and tree species diversity targets by BEC subzones

·           Provides direction regarding landscape level retention targets, harvesting priorities and climate change

·           Where other non-timber value strategies exist, and data is readily available, provides direction on key local non-timber values and concerns

·           Includes a discussion of treatment risk, including reference to local wildfire management plans

·           Helps to develop a spatially explicit five-year plan for silviculture investments