Hazard Assessment Keys for Evaluating Site Sensitivity to Soil Degrading Processes Guidebook
Hazard Assessment Keys for Evaluating Site Sensitivity to Soil Degrading Processes Guidebook

Author: British Columbia. Ministry of Forests

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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This guidebook is intended to help forest managers assess and minimize the effect on the soil of any proposed soil-degrading forest practices involving compaction and puddling, soil displacement, forest floor displacement, surface soil erosion, and mass wasting. The guidebook rates hazards as low, moderate, high, and very high. The guidebook includes definitions, controlling site factors, management considerations, and keys to help rate those hazards. An appendix contains a listing of precipitation factors for biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia by forest region.

Ecology and Management of Sitka Spruce
Ecology and Management of Sitka Spruce

Author: N. Merle Peterson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0774844256

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Sitka spruce, the largest of the world's spruces, is an important component of British Columbia's coastal forests. Its ecology gives it a special place in the sustainable management of the province's forests. However, in west coast forestry it is poorly known in comparison with its main coniferous companions -- Douglas-fir, western redcedar, and western hemlock. As an important international forestry resource, it is crucial that Sitka spruce -- its ecology and the ecosystems in which it occurs -- be clearly understood by those who are involved with its management.

Silviculture Prescription Data Collection Field Handbook
Silviculture Prescription Data Collection Field Handbook

Author: Michael Patrick Curran

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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This guide is a technical support document intended to help forestry practitioners collect the information they need to prepare a silvicultural treatment regime and silviculture prescription in accordance with British Columbia Forest Practices Code legislation. It deals primarily with the collection & stratification of site-specific field data. After information on office preparation, stratification, plot establishment, and mapping procedures, the guide presents data collection procedures for silviculture prescription field forms. Copies of forms are included in the appendix. The data cover such matters as site characteristics, understorey & overstorey, soils, riparian & watershed values, soil & fire hazards, silvicultural systems & objectives, harvesting, forest health, stand tending, and forest resource values.

Silviculture Prescription Guidebook
Silviculture Prescription Guidebook

Author: British Columbia. Ministry of Forests

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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Describes how to develop a silviculture prescription - a site-specific plan that describes the forest management objectives for an area.

Landslide Risk Management
Landslide Risk Management

Author: Oldrich Hungr

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-06-30

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 1439833710

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Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC

Soil Conservation Guidebook
Soil Conservation Guidebook

Author: British Columbia. Ministry of Forests

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Provides direction on how to prepare operational plans and prescriptions that require specification of limits for various types of soil disturbance during forestry operations.

Stand Management Prescription Guidebook
Stand Management Prescription Guidebook

Author: British Columbia. Ministry of Forests

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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A stand management prescription is a document for describing actions to be carried out on a free-growing site to see that stand management activities are planned and implemented to maintain or enhance site productivity, to ensure that resource values are identified and taken into account, and to set out a series of stand management activities to produce a stand that meets the management objectives. This guide provides a logical sequence of steps on how to prepare and administer a stand management prescription in accordance with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia. These steps include identification and collection of background information, setting of stand-level resource objectives, conducting fieldwork, preparation of the final prescription, production of the stand management prescription map, and administration.