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Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations

Vegetation Resources Inventory

VRI Change Management

2011 VRI Change Management

Please note that the VRI Change Management process for 2011/12 is now closed.

The Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch will review all of the suggested changes and will consider them in terms of appropriateness, cost effectiveness, impact on statistical reliability and the ability to incorporate the change within the current database structure. For this reason not all suggested changes will be incorporated.

For more information, please contact John Wakelin (John.Wakelin@gov.bc.ca)


 

Change Management 2011
Overview of Inventory Streamlining Changes and Change Management Process (April 4th 2011)

In March, 2010, in response to significant resourcing constraints, the Ministry conducted a review of all business areas. As a consequence of this review, a business response document was produced that recommended all non-essential projects be dropped while streamlining (or simplifying) others that could be trimmed down.  The Forest Inventory Section of the Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch (FAIB) initiated several inventory streamlining projects.  The purpose of these projects was to determine how the Branch could reduce the financial and staff commitments required to maintain the inventory without significantly impacting standards and while maintaining or improving delivery.  Four of these projects,  covered in the inventory streamlining document that is now posted to the FAIB VRI Change Management website, result in changes to how VRI is planned, implemented and subsequently analyzed, as follows:

  • Streamlining inventory ground sampling;

  • Streamlining NVAF implementation;

  • Streamlining VRI attribute analysis, and

  • Streamlining inventory planning.

Please refer to this document for an overview of these changes.  Please contact the undersigned if you have any questions or comments [download document]. 

For more information, please contact John Wakelin (John.Wakelin@gov.bc.ca)