Coast Forest Region Research Section - Wildlife habitat ecology

About

The Wildlife Habitat Ecology program undertakes research and provides consultative advice on wildlife species-habitat relationships within forested coastal ecosystems. Extension is a key program component.

Work focuses on understanding wildlife responses to forest practices and associated changes in available habitat and habitat structure, species and communities at risk, wildlife use of riparian ecosystems, and the effectiveness of biological conservation strategies. Two regional research wildlife habitat ecologists work collaboratively within MoFR as well as with other government agencies, universities, and the forest industry to provide a scientific basis for wildlife habitat management in coastal forested ecosystems. Legislation most specifically addressed through the program include: Forest and Range Practices Act (replacing BC Forest Practices Code), Land Act, and Species at Risk Act.

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