Provincial Silviculture Strategies

The following information provides the provincial incremental silviculture strategies and supporting background information. This information is intended to provide overall direction and context for the development of management unit specific silviculture strategies.

• Provincial Silviculture Strategy Documents
• MS Powerpoint Presentations
• Resource Planning Process
• Plans to Programs
• Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation
• Related Links

Provincial Silviculture Strategy Documents

The following summary document is an overview description of the Strategic Silviculture Planning Initiatives currently underway in BC. The initiatives include the development of provincial, regional and management unit silviculture strategies. It also describes the work underway to develop explicit linkages to the Resource Management Planning Process, budget allocations and performance measures. The document describes how Silviculture Strategies will become an appendix to Sustainable Forest Management Plans and will be one of basis for one-plan approval and the reduction or elimination of the need for officially required silviculture and stand management prescriptions

• SUMMARY - Strategic Silviculture Planning Initiatives in B.C. - R. Winter (pdf, 215 k,  posted July 9, 2001)

• Incremental Silviculture Strategy for B.C. Ver. 1.0 (pdf, 298 k) posted October 8, 1999

• Working Paper 1: Project Information, References (pdf, 111k) Posted Nov. 18, 1999

• Working Paper 2: Concepts of Strategy and Planning, Proposed Framework (pdf, 139 k) Posted Nov. 18, 1999

• Working Paper 3: Government's Goals, Proposed Guiding Principles (pdf, 113 k) Posted Nov. 18, 1999

• Working Paper 4: Proposed Log Quality Framework, Timber Supply and Demand (pdf, 327 k) Posted Nov. 18, 1999

• Working Paper 5: Proposed Financial and Socio-economic Analysis Framework Draft 3.2 (pdf, 452 k) Posted April 2, 2001

• Working Paper 6: Summary of TSA Basic Data (pdf, 303 k) Posted Nov. 18, 1999

MS Powerpoint Presentations [Back to the TOP]

• Incremental Silviculture Strategy presentation by Larry Pedersen, Chief Forester, June 26, 2001 (ppt, 1.7 mb, posted July 13, 2001).

• Strategic Silviculture Planning Intiatives in B.C. (pdf, 810 k)
  Presentation to the Coastal Silviculture Committee Meeting on January 28, 2000. The presentation overviews Strategic Silviculture Planning Initiatives in BC. Posted January 28, 2000

• Type I Silviculture Strategies

• Incremental Silviculture Strategy for B.C (Powerpoint. 2,905 k) posted July 8, 1999

• Forest Level Analysis for Silviculture Investments, a summary of analyses done to date and plans to the end of the fiscal year.

Resource Planning Process  [Back to the TOP]

Guidelines for developing the Forest Health Maintenance Component of the RMP guidelines

• Silviculture Information Access (ISIS-SIA) Reports for building RMPs link to IMG's SIA website

Plans to Programs: The Allocation of Incremental Silviculture Funds Within the Resource Management Plan Process  [Back to the TOP]

• Plans to Programs: The Allocation of Incremental Silviculture Funds Within the Resource Management Plan Process (Word 97, 855 k, posted June 7, 2001)

• Regional RMP Allocation Workbook - User's Guide (Word 97, 132 k, posted June 7, 2001)

• Revised performance measures for assessing investment benefits in the backlog and enhanced forestry programs (pdf, 177 k, posted July 10, 2007)

• Five year performance measures calculator (Excel, 78 k, posted July 10, 2007)

Implementation Monitoring & Evaluation  [Back to the TOP]

• Implementation Monitoring - Nelson Forest Region (pdf, 328 k, posted April 22, 2002)
• Implementation Monitoring - Vancouver Forest Region (pdf, 339 k, posted April 22, 2002)
• Ensuring Accomplishment: Monitoring the Strategic Planning and Reporting of Incremental Silviculture Activities  (pdf, 166 k, posted February 18, 2002)

Related Documents  [Back to the TOP]

Related documents not associated with a particular TSA or TFL

• The potential for reforestation in agricultural leases within the Dawson Creek and Prince George Special Sale Areas, October, 1991, (pdf, 256k, posted March 1, 2002)
• The report Forest Management Opportunities in Non-merchantable Forest Types provides a strategic overview of the problem forest types found throughout BC and identifies some options for dealing with them.
• ADDENDUM NO. 1, March 31, 2001 (pdf, 234 k, posted April 30, 2001)
• Non-merchantable Forest types (Excel, 25 k, posted April 30, 2001)

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