Ministry of Forests and Range
Software Registration and Download Newsletter
October 2004 - Notice #3
- Variable retention adjustment factors
- Fertilization was enhanced to include multiple species, multiple applications and more response data
- The option to create your own custom OAFs, at both the stand and the species level
- More operational factors, including a decay, waste and breakage model that mimics VDYP's DWB model, and an OAF developed specifically for Armillaria in interior Douglas-fir in the ICH
- Red alder, our first hardwood species
- Some species were previously unavailable in TIPSY because of lack of data.&nsbp; Now you are able to use site curves that were developed for that particular species, still substituting the volume-height data of a different species in TIPSY's database.
TIPSY 3.2 is ready for downloading from our download web site.
- The BEC Site Series lookup tool has been removed.&nsbp; There is a new tool with Site Index estimates by Site Series (SIBEC) - second approximations. This will meet your needs that were previously filled by the Site Series lookup tool. See below for more information.
- new site index equations for trembling aspen, black spruce, subalpine fir, interior western redcedar, western larch, ponderosa pine, Engelmann spruce
- new juvenile height models for lodgepole pine and interior spruce
- The BatchTools dialogs have been redesigned to better manage the list of species, site curve equations and growth intercept models.
SiteTools 3.3 is ready for downloading from our download web site.
British Columbia's Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification (BEC) system organizes our knowledge of ecosystems and provides a framework within which to manage forest resources. This classification system has served as a foundation for forest
management decisions for more than 20 years. Since the 1990s, foresters and scientists recognized that correlating BEC site factor information with measures of site productivity, or site index (SI), would greatly enhance our ability to manage
certain forest stands.
This SIBEC Web guide provides background information for the most recent approximation of site index estimates for tree species according to site units of the Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification system of British Columbia. The estimates
themselves are presented in tabular form in two downloadable reports or available through a custom reporting tool.
Visit the SIBEC website
The VENUS data capture application was developed for capturing ecological data collected using the RISC standard, the Field Manual for Describing Terrestrial Ecosystems (DTEIF). VENUS follows the same codes and definitions used on the DTEIF Ecosystem field forms (FS882 & GIF).
The latest version, VENUS 5.0, includes a feature that converts data from earlier versions, including VENUS 2.2, VENUS 3.0 and VENUS 4.2, into the new format. It also includes some additional reporting and validation functions, as well as the ability to import and export data to Microsoft Excel.
Check for release of VENUS 5.0.
Please contact Mario Di Lucca or Shelley Grout if you have any questions or need more information about our products. We also welcome your feedback for improvements.
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