Sustainable Harvest: Goals and Strategies

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Sustainable Harvest Goals and Strategies

• Identifying Knowledge Gaps to Support
  Sustainability in BCs Natural Resource Sector
• Think Tank Presentation
• August 15-17, 2000
• by Glen Upton and Chris Roddan

Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research
Partnership
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Statement of Recommendation

• An advisory task force should be set up to guide
  FRBC and the science council on the structure and
  process of evaluation and administration of FRBC
  research funds.
• An administrative structure is required which is
  based on prior review of problem statements by
  expert committees which ensures
• 1) Evaluation of proposals and programs by expert
  committees (coucils) and ad-hoc committess
  without external administrative interference.
• 2) Continuity of long-term, high-quality research
  programs in addition to excellent short-term
  research projects.
• 3) Fair evalutation of proposals according to
  FRBCs priorities, the quality of the proposal
  and the competence of the investigators.

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Problem Area Productivity

• Goal 1
• To produce better information about the growth
  and yield of forest stands by
• Estimating site productivity
• Predicting response to silviculture treatments,
  including First Nations silv regimes.
• Predicting forest health imacts on growth and
  yield
• Predicting natural stand development patterns for
  comparisons with management

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Problem Area Productivity

• Goal 2
• To create better feedback mechanisms for
  monitoring the productivity and health of our
  forests, with particular emphasis on indicators
  required by the various certification schemes by
• Determining methodology and procedures for
  monitoring regulatory benchmarks
• Developing a methodology for meeting indicators
  required for certification.

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Problem Area Productivity

• Goal 3
• To create better inventories of timber and
  non-timber resources such as the Vegetative
  Resources Inventory (VRI) methods, supplemented
  by other forms of mapping and sampling by
• Increasing the harvesting landbase through better
  identification of problem types
• Increasing access to timber by improving
  multi-resource management decisions.

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Problem Area Stand Management

• Goal 1
• To better predict the effects of silviculture on
  crop value (quantity/quality), including density,
  juvenile wood, growth rings and other attributes,
  of species where quality has a significant impact
  on value by
• consulting with others working on same problems
  (ie tree improvement programs) with consideration
  to quality attributes
• Identifing silvicultural treatments that affect
  quality.
• Analyzing opportunities for additional quality
  research and fund projects.

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Problem Area Stand Management

• Goal 2
• To predict the impact of various treatments and
  activities on structure of stands, and
  suitability and capability of habitat by
• Maintaining existing trials
• Evaluating the knowledge available by developing
  and importance matrix that includes a wide range
  of data.
• Establishing appropriate trials in identified
  areas designed to provide data consistent with
  model development and validation.
• Provide support for model development

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Problem Area Stand Management

• Goal 3
• To incorporate land currently outside productive
  or operable land base into the productive land
  base and improve productivity of low/poor site
  land through silvicultural treatments by
• Maintaining or expanding existing long-term
  studies addressing this problem.
• Identifying strategic areas and opportunities for
  additional studies.
• Establishing appropriate trials to address
  activities likely to have high potential
  response. (2 years)

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Problem Area Silvicultural Systems

• Goal 1
• To undertake and support research (new and on
  going) and technology applications that will
  provide information to confirm where
  silvicultural systems are operationally,
  economically and ecologically sound and where
  they can be used to meet timber or IRM objectives
  by
• Developing effective monitoring of systems
• Testing existing monitoring systems
• Establishing new trials and maintain existing
  trials.
• Developing predictive tools
• Implementing partial cutting applications

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Problem Area Genetics and Tree Improvement

• Goal 1
• To enhance and verify gains in second growth
  stand productivity and value through an increased
  understanding of the genetics of growth traits,
  pest resistance, and wood quality.
• Reviewing status of enhancement and verification
  to identify priorities and needs
• Establishing studies to further understand
  silvicultural system by genetic interactions and
  link progeny test information with stand level
  productivity.
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Problem Area Genetics and Tree Improvement

• Goal 2
• To increase the genetic quality and efficiency of
  production of seed and propagules delivered to
  operational reforestation from seed orchards,
  vegetative production systems, and natural stands.

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Problem Area Genetics and Tree Improvement

• Goal 3
• To provide information on genecology and gene
  conservation that will guide forest management
  decisions in all seed planning units in a way
  that allows low risk propagule deployment and
  maintains acceptable levels of genetic diversity
  within each species.

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Problem Area Land Management Strategies

• Goal 1
• To provide supporting information and research
  for the development and verification of spatially
  based detailed forest management planning models
  for BC by
• Identifying and evaluating existing models
• Identifying and evaluating research needs within
  existing models
• Testing and comparing timber assumptions.

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Problem Area Land Management Strategies

• Goal 2
• To determine the impacts of the various
  non-timber constraints as outlined in the Forest
  Practices Code and guidebooks on achieving forest
  management objectives by
• Establishing the source of guiding scientific
  principles
• Monitoring and evaluating existing implemented
  practices
• Investigating alternatives to existing
  constraints
• Determining methods for implementing change

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Problem Area Land Management Strategies

• Goal 3
• To develop models to account for other resource
  values (individual or combined) for input into
  timber supply analysis by
• Examining existing models to determine in which
  areas models are needed
• Developing modeling techniques
• Testing models in situations with broad
  application
• Determining methods of use and implementation

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Problem Area Land Management Strategies

• Goal 4
• To determine if sustainable harvest and ecosystem
  based management approach are compatible by
• Establishing what is meant by sustainable harvest
  and ecosystem-based management with respect to
  each other
• Comparing the results of managing under the
  principles of sustainable harvest (timber supply
  emphasis) with the results of ecosystem based
  management (non-timber emphasis)

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Problem Area Forest Health

• Goal 1
• To develop an accessible database that will be
  created to provide information based on various
  inputs and will provide outputs on Risk, tested
  management options and will interface with a pest
  diagnostice system by
• Conducting research to compile TEK that can be
  used to expand our comprehension of forest health
  problems and guide management strategies.

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Problem Area Forest Health

• Goal 2
• To provide a continual flow of new knowledge and
  proven innovative technologies to expand the
  management options for important forest pests by
• Funding original and innovative research
  proposals that have a high probability of leading
  to new forest health management options
  applicable to the province-wide database

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Problem Area Forest Health

• Goal 3
• To develop a long-term monitoring program to
  assist in the prediction of the impact of climate
  change on the health of forest stands and to use
  these predictions as a basis for the selection of
  planting stock and the application of
  silviculture treatments by
• Conducting site-specific research on selected
  plantations in representative Biogeoclimatic
  zones
• Maintaining and/or developing linkages between
  FRBC funded research and the Canadian Forest
  Service climate change network and the Forest
  Productivity and Forest Genetics Councils