Kamloops Timber Supply Area Rationale for (AAC) Determination
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Table of Contents

• Kamloops Timber Supply Area Rationale for allowable annual cut (AAC) determination
• Objective of this document
• Description of the TSA
• History of the AAC
• New AAC determination
• Information sources used in the AAC determination
• Role and limitations of the technical information used
• Statutory framework
• Guiding principles for AAC determinations
• Consideration of factors as required by Section 7 of the Forest Act
  • The role of the base case
    • Land base contributing to timber harvesting
      • - general comments
      • - operability
      • - reductions for environmentally sensitive areas
      • - roads, trails and landings
      • - Timber Licence reversion
      • - excluded forest types
    • Existing forest inventory
      • -general comments
      • - volume estimates for existing stands
    • Expected rate of growth
      • - site productivity estimates
      • - volume estimates for regenerated stands
      • - minimum harvestable ages
    • Not-satisfactorily-restocked area
    • Regeneration delay
      • - impediments to prompt regeneration
    • Silvicultural systems
    • Commercial thinning
    • Incremental silviculture
    • Utilization and compliance
    • Decay, waste and breakage
    • Integrated Resource Management (IRM) objectives
      • - green-up period
      • - cutblock adjacency
      • - visually sensitive areas
      • - wildlife habitat
      • - community watersheds
      • - lakeshore management areas
      • - riparian habitat
      • - biodiversity
      • - recreation
      • - areas of cultural or archaeological significance, and traditional uses
      • - Kamloops Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP)
    • Deferrals
    • Harvest flow
    • Harvest profile for mill requirements
    • Pulpwood Agreements
    • Minister's letter and memo
    • Local objectives
    • Non-recoverable losses
• Reasons for decision
• Determination
• Implementation of Decision
• Appendix 1:
  • BC Forest Act, section 7
• Appendix 2:
  • B.C. Ministry of Forests Act, Section 4
• Appendix 3:
  • Minister's July 28, 1994 Letter to the Chief Forester.
• Appendix 4:
  • Minister's February 26, 1996 Memo to the Chief Forester.
• Appendix 5:
  • Summary of Public Input