Model Origins Development Strategy Current (and Future) Development

Model Origins

SYLVER was developed as a product of the Douglas-fir Task Force(1985-1989) which wassponsored by Forintek Canada Corporation, Pulp and Paper Research Institute, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, The University of British Columbia, and six coastal companies(Kellogg, 1989). ,These companies were:B.C. Forest Products, Crown Forest Industries, Canadian Forest Products, MacMillan Bloedel, Western Forest Products and C.I.P locatesuitable stands, felled trees and transport logs to the mill. Canadian Pacific Forest Products made their Ladysmith mill available for the conversion study. The Task Force included 13 projects which studied the basic wood and pulp properties of second-growth stands of coastal Douglas-fir. The last project, called Silviculture and End Product Value, was the stand-level system SYLVER.

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Development Strategy

Development Team and Cooperators

Thanks to these people and organizations for their contribution to the development of SYLVER.

Forintek Canada Corporation

Robert Kellogg, , Les Josza, ,and Gerry Middleton,

Research Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests

Ken Mitchell, Ken Polsson, and Jim Goudie,

The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry

Dave Barrett and Mario Di Lucca

Support from Industry and other Agencies

Canadian Pacific Forest Products

Bruce Devitt, Ed Vermiere and Charlie Schwan

Canadian Forest Products

Paul Wooding

MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.

Jan Aune, Neil Brett-Davies and Phil Cottell

Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd.

Don McMullan, Jack Toovey, Laurin Haines, John Johnson and Larry Promnitz

Western Forest Products

John Barker

Consultants:

Howard Leach, Halco Software Systems - SAWSIM modifications

Dave Ormerod and Seth Wilson, Sylvametrics - FANSY development

Current (and Future) Development

Current and future development of SYLVER includes:

• lodgepole pine and coastal western hemlock;
• an employment generation module;
• the establishment of an expert user group for ongoing testing and development of FAN$Y; and
• input options in TASSIE, described in TASS, for specifying bucking, sawing and grading parameters.