Forest Practices > Silviculture

Stocking Standards

• How the use of the term "Free-Growing" is linked to harvest and assessment date (183 k, pdf, posted Oct 23, 2012)
• A Short History of the Control of Species Selection for Reforestation in B.C. (478 k, pdf, posted Oct 19, 2012)
• FREP Report #19, BC Ministry of Forests and Range. 2009. Forest Stewardship Plan Stocking Standard Evaluation.
•  FRPA General Bulletin (Number 22) – An Overview of FSP Extensions (248 k, pdf, posted March 29, 2010)
• Memo from Phil Zacharatos ADM Operations Division,  regarding FRPA Administrative Bulletin (Number 13) – Silviculture Prescription Stocking Standard Amendments (272 k, pdf, posted Dec 5, 2009)
• Chief Forester's Guidance on Tree Species Composition at the Stand and Landscape Level (389 k, pdf, posted October 22, 2009)
• Silviculture Guidelines and Practices for Maintaining or Recruiting Key Habitat Objectives
• An Overview Reference for the Evaluation of Stocking Standards Under FRPA ( 80 k, pdf, posted Nov. 8, 2006)
• Letter re: Approval/Rejection of Multi-block Stocking Standards in Forest Stewardship Plans (302K, PDF, posted Sept. 11, 2006)
• Power point presentation - Summary for silviculture under FRPA (link to file posted on MOF ftp server, Feb. 20, 2003)
  • Basic Business flow
  • What’s new for silviculture under FRPA
  • What’s not new
  • What are the business needs for information
  • Linkage to other business
• Minimum inter-tree distance and other survey parameters (link to MOF Research Branch)

The linked paper discusses the effect of the silviculture survey parameters (including reduction of MITD) on the free-growing decision probabilities and projected volume at rotation.

• Chief Forester memo on the Incorporation of mixedwood and broadleaves into Forest Stewardship Plan stocking standards, SP amendments, and TSR regeneration assumptions  (pdf, 242 k, posted May 6, 2008)
• Chief Forester letter on broadleaf management applies to Forest Development Plan stocking standards (pdf, 21 k, posted Feb 4, 2003)
• Chief Forester's Letter on broadleaf management (pdf, 276 k, posted Dec.17, 2002)
• FPC Transition Flowchart (ppt, 53 k, posted Dec. 17, 2002)

STOCKING STANDARDS

• Guidance for assessing FSP stocking standards alignment with addressing immediate and long-term forest health issues (pdf, 271k, posted June 25, 2012)
• Reference Guide for FDP Stocking Standards, (616k, updated Nov. 26, 2010)
• CF's Memo:  Guidance for the incorporation of western larch into FSP and Woodlot license plan stocking standards (187k, posted Sept 19, 2011)

STOCKING STANDARDS TRAINING MATERIAL

• Training and Resources for Stocking Standards