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Visual Quality - Visual Resource Management Links

Visual Landscape Inventory

• Procedures and Standards
• Recreational Resource Inventory – Web map

Forest Investment Account

• Integrated Visual Design Standards (pdf, 1,399 k, posted May 31, 2002)
• Visual Rehabilitation Standards  (in preparation)

Forest and Range Practices Act

• Managing Visual Resources - FRPA Bulletin #9
• Beetle Wood Salvage and Visual Quality - FPRA Bulletin #10
• FRPA Visual Resource Value Indicators
• Scenic Area Memo (PDF, 1mb, Posted Feb. 8, 2005)

Visual Impact Assessments

• VIA Guidebook

Visual Design Principles

• Visual Landscape Design Training Manual 
• Bear Lake Integrated Visual Design Plan (Draft)
  (PDF, 2.25 Mb, posted April 29, 2002)

Visual Resources & Timber Supply

• Black Peaks Total Resource Plan & Plan-to-Perspective Analysis (20 MB, pdf, posted Jan 22, 2007)
• Bulletin - Modelling Visuals in TSR III (102 k, pdf, posted Feb. 8, 2005)
• Procedures for Factoring Visual Resources into Timber Supply Analyses (PDF, 39 k, posted July 18, 2001)

Visual Resources & Silvicultural Systems

• Document:  Visual quality and available merchantable volume

Clear Cut	Partial Cut	Variable Retention

Visual Resource Management Training

• A New Training Approach to Visual Design:  Visual Landscape Design – Interactive Multimedia Training
• Available through the Learning Store by typing the following titles into the site's search feature:
  • Visual Impact Assessment
  • Visual landscape Design
  • Visual landscape Inventory

FRPA Resource Evaluation Program

• FRPA Resource Evaluation Program Visual Quality page.

Publications

• Managing Forested Viewscapes - 2005 Conference Compendium of Papers
• The Public Response to Harvest Practices in
  British Columbia at the Landscape and Stand Level.
• Economic Benefits of Managing Forestry and Tourism at Nimmo Bay  (pdf, 2158 k, Posted March 17, 2003)
• Predicting the Visual Impacts of Retention Cutting (pdf, 1,144 or 775 k, Posted March 17, 2003)
• Looking beyond the trees:  Visual Stewardship of the Working Forest Visual Resource Management Conference Compendium Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada April 17 to 19, 2001 - (posted August 12, 2002) 
• Visual Impacts of Partial Cutting: summary report (pdf, 1,437 k, posted August 27, 2001) 
• Visually Effective Green-up in British Columbia – A Public Perception Study 
• Clearcutting and Visual Quality - A Public Perception Study 
• Visual Resource Management Publications and Products

Current Research Initiatives

• Design of roadside landscapes
• Public perceptions of mountain pine beetle damaged forests

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Last updated on July 16, 2008
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