76 datasets found

ABSTRACT The current mountain pine beetle epidemic is one of the greatest threats to Northern Caribou populations in British Columbia. Northern Caribou in the Southern Mountains...

INTRODUCTION The Itcha-Ilgachuz caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) population winters in low elevation forested habitat east of the Itcha Mountains, and in high elevation...

ABSTRACT A retrospective study was undertaken in an old Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) attacked forest to gain insight in stand dynamics post-beetle attack. Extent of mortality,...

ABSTRACT Most natural disturbances leave structural legacies that are used by a variety of organisms as forest regrows. Forest management prescribes retention of “wildlife tree...

INTRODUCTION TO PROCEEDINGS (summarized) The number of plans and processes for managing the landbase in British Columbia has been growing rapidly with the completion of land and...

INTRODUCTION (summarized) The Bulkley Valley Research Centre hosted a dynamic conference in February of 2007, attracting some of the province’s top forestry professionals as...

PROJECT HISTORY, PURPOSE, METHODOLOGY AND SCOPE (summarized) This executive summary is part of a two year project, which started in April 2006 and runs till March 2008. This...

Imagine for a moment, the grasslands of British Columbia. Chances are, the last place that will come to mind is the Skeena Region of northwest B.C. This, after all, is the land...

PROJECT PURPOSE AND MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS (summarized) The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) epidemic has shifted from controlling the outbreak to mitigating its impact on...

(From "Synopsis of FIA-FSP Research Projects (2004-2009)") Forest managers require robust, unbiased predictive equations of juvenile tree growth under a range of management...

INTRODUCTION In north central BC, the current mountain pine beetle outbreak, and the management response to it, is changing the forest environment. In the public media rhetoric...

ABSTRACT In 1997, 30 one-ha stem mapped plots were located in randomly selected juvenile lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. Ex Loud.) leading stands aged 15-20 years. The...

ABSTRACT In this project, we incorporated a robust snag dynamics submodel into SORTIE-­ND, a version of the spatially explicit, individual tree model SORTIE (Pacala et al. 1996;...

ABSTRACT Resource managers, planners, and the public are unified in their calls for monitoring of land-use plans. Unfortunately, many monitoring initiatives fall short of their...

ABSTRACT (summarized) The document describes a study conducted in west-central British Columbia, focusing on the habitat composition and pattern within goshawk territories. The...

ABSTRACT Guidelines for qualitative habitat models, such as habitat suitability index models, emphasize the importance of verification and validation exercises as part of the...

This report addresses the management practices and challenges related to sub-boreal forests in British Columbia. It discusses the historical dominance of clearcutting followed...

ABSTRACT Inventory and research of Northern Goshawks has been ongoing in west-central British Columbia (BC) since 1996. Although limited nest area monitoring was conducted in...

This technical workshop was held in Smithers in 2010 as part of the Nadina Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment.

This climate change workshop was held at the Northwest Community College in 2011.