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Vegetation Resource Inventory and Update
The Vegetation Resources Inventory must stay
current to reflect changes due to manmade and non-man made
disturbances such as harvesting, fire, insect and disease.
The update process includes the identification, mapping and
describing the changes that occur on the forest landbase.
In 2007 the Province launched a new system to
update the Provincial Forest Inventory.
That system is called the Vegetation Resource Inventory
Management System (VRIMS).
This tools allows users to input new harvest
and Free Growing data extract information from the
Province’s Reporting Silviculture Updates and Land status
Tracking System (RESULTS).
Licensee’s are mandated to report their silviculture
activities to RESULTS annually.
VRIMS and the VRIMS team extracts and verifies this
information and integrates it into the Vegetation Resources
Inventory.
VRIMS is also used to load new Forest
Inventories into the database.
In addition, VRIMS provides the tools required to grow and
project the trees annually.
This data is then posted to the BC Geographic Warehouse and
is made available to forest managers and the public.
For further information please contact Marc
Rousseau
Marc.Rousseau@gov.bc.ca
For VRIMS detailed design, download document here.