Contents

Key Indexes

Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations

Vegetation Resources Inventory

Vegetation Resources Monitoring Program
National Forest Inventory and Monitoring

Introduction

Developing the ability to report on the current status of the forest resource in British Columbia and to monitor changes in the forest has become a serious need in the last few years.

In October, 2010 the Branch developed a business case for monitoring which is focused on young stands in high risk management units.   This business case Why We Need to Monitor Change in Our Managed Forests, December 8, 2010 identified a critical knowledge gap in stand performance, forest health, stocking and volume in second growth stands located in high risk and priority management units based on a number of key business drivers, including:

  • Confirmation of sustainability, especially over the mid-term, and fulfilling Forest Stewardship core responsibilities;

  • Providing critical information for AAC determinations;

  • Checking site productivity and stand performance assumptions;

  • Providing a continuous feedback loop to improve basic and incremental silviculture, including tree improvement investments; and

  • Providing information on carbon sequestration and how climate change may be affecting second growth stands.

In response to this need, the inventory section is developing a re-measured permanent plot program to monitor young stand growth and yield.   This program will provide data to check the growth and yield predictions employed in TSR, silviculture planning, yield modelling, and other key forest management tools and processes.   The program will target high risk areas where young stand growth rates are critical to mid-term timber supply.   Initial work is focusing on development of a monitoring mock-up for review by key stakeholders.   A monitoring framework and detailed work plans are also being developed at this time.

For more information on the design of this program, contact Tamara Brierley (Tamara.Brierley@gov.bc.ca; 250-356-0703).

Climate Change

One of the best ways to determine the degree to which global warming affects the forest is by continuously comparing what was previously there to what is there now.

Partnership

Coordinated by the Canadian Forest Service, the National Forest Inventory (NFI) is an interagency partnership of federal departments, provincial governments and industry.

For additional information see the National Forest Inventory website at: https://nfi.nfis.org/index.php

Contact for the NFI John Wakelin at: 250-387-5262, John.Wakelin@gov.bc.ca

Reports and Publications (Recent Postings)

  • A Framework for Implementing Young Stand Growth Monitoring In British Columbia - A Discussion Paper (version 2.2) [download] Posted 17th January 2012
  • British Columbia Forest Resource Reporting from the National Forest Inventory Photo Database 2008 (March 2008) [download]
  • BC Forest Monitoring Work Plan (March 2009) [download]
  • Why We Need to Monitor Change in Our Managed Forests (December 8 2010) [download]
  • A Framework for Implementing Second Growth Stand Monitoring in British Columbia  (Draft 1.2 November 4th, 2011) [download]

Monitoring Reports and Publications  (Previous Postings)
author
date
digital format
IFPA Reports
• Change Monitoring Inventory Pilot Project for the Adams Lake IFPA Strategic Implementation Plan
JS Thrower & Associates
31 March 20002
•
 Interfor Hope IFPA Change Monitoring Inventory Pilot Project First Measurement Results
JS Thrower & Associates
31 March 20002
• Change Monitoring Inventory Pilot Project for the Merritt IFPAs Strategic Implementation Plan
JS Thrower & Associates
21 March 2002
• Change Monitoring Inventory Pilot Project for the Merritt IFPAs Strategic Implementation Plan Version 2
JS Thrower & Associates
31 March 2003
TFL Reports
• An Integrated Growth and Yield Monitoring and Timber Inventory Program for TFL 5 JS Thrower & Associates 29 March 2001 [download]
• TFL 5 Change Monitoring Inventory Establishment Report JS Thrower & Associates 10 March 2004 [download]
• TFL 5 Change Monitoring Inventory Sample Plan JS Thrower & Associates 28 October 2003 [download]
• TFL 14 Spillimacheen Monitoring Options Report Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants March 2002 [download]
• Change Monitoring Inventory on TFL 30 First Measurement Results JS Thrower & Associates 15 March 2002 [download]
•
 TFL 30 Canadian Forest Products Pilot Change Monitoring Inventory Sample Plan
JS Thrower & Associates
September
2001
• TFL 33 Change Monitoring Inventory Program Analysis of First Measurement Data
Timberline
Natural Resource
31 March 2008
• TFL 35 Jamieson Block Growth and Yield Monitoring Second Measurement Results Final Report Timberline
Natural Resource		 16 March 2007 [download]
• TFL 35 Growth and Yield Monitoring Pilot Project Year End Report JS Thrower & Associates 30 March 2001 [download]
• Pilot Test of A Growth and Yield Monitoring Program for Weyerhaeuser's TFL 35 Sample Plan JS Thrower & Associates 31 May 2000 [download]
• TFL 35 Growth and Yield Monitoring Pilot Project An Example Analysis of First Measurement Results JS Thrower & Associates 31 March 2002 [download]
• TFL 48 Change Monitoring Inventory Sample Plan
JS Thrower & Associates
20 January 2005
• TFL 52 Blocks A and B Change Monitoring Inventory Time 2 Measurement Results
Timberline
Natural Resource

31 March 2009
• TFL 52 Change Monitoring Inventory Plot Analysis Final Report DR Systems Inc 19 April 2007 [download]
• West Fraser Mills Ltd TFL 52 Pilot Change Monitoring Inventory Sample Plan Second Year JS Thrower & Associates 15 July 2002 [download]
• TFL 55 Change Monitoring Inventory Establishment Results
Timberline
Natural Resource
22 March 2010
• TFL 55 Change Monitoring Inventory Sample Plan
Timberline
Natural Resource
March 2008
TSA Reports
• Growth and Yield Monitoring Plan for the Fort St. John TSA Version 2
JS Thrower & Associates
31 March 2003
• Defining Forest Monitoring Business Needs for the Kamloops TSA JS Thrower & Associates
31 March 2003