Abstract
This Land Management Handbook contains a large amount of information on the effects of operational brushing treatments on conifers and plant communities in the Kamloops and Nelson forest regions. Data were collected over a 9-year period from 96 individual PROBE (PRotocol for Operational Brushing Evaluations) trials, and detailed parametric statistical analysis has now been carried out for eight different vegetation complexes. We have organized this document primarily by vegetation complex, so that information for each of the eight complexes is presented in individual sections that essentially "stand-alone." Each of these sections contains an abstract, an introduction, site descriptions, results, a discussion, conclusions, and management implications (Sections 4-11). The overall introduction, objectives, and methodology are contained in Sections 1-3, and an overall summary and management recommendation are presented in Section 12. Readers are referred to the overall summary and section abstracts for a quick synopsis of the study results. We could not include all PROBEsites in the analysis because not all combinations of "vegetation complex-brushing treatment-biogeoclimatic unit-conifer species" have been adequately replicated. Results from unreplicated treatments are summarized in the Appendices.
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Section 1 Introduction (PDF file) (270 KB)
Section 2 Objectives (91 KB)
Section 3 Methods (227 KB)
Section 4 Fireweed Complex (9613 KB)
Section 5 Fern Complex (2866 KB)
Section 6 Mixed Shrub Complex (4254 KB)
Section 7 Ericaceous Shrub and Subalpine Herb Complexes (3339 KB)
Section 8 Dry Alder Complex (2813 KB)
Section 9 Wet Alder Complex (4686 KB)
Section 10 Aspen Complex (2462 KB)
Section 11 Mixed Broadleaf-Shrub Complex (11674 KB)
Section 12 Overall summary (425 KB)
Section 13 References (253 KB)
Section 14 Appendix 1 and 2 (445 KB)
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Updated April 27, 2007
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