
Continuous forest inventory applications in the determination of sustainability in British Columbia
The application of data from a continuous forest inventory, CFI, system over fifteen years to a wood lot licence in British Columbia is described. The B.C. Forest Service is responsible for forest management based on an annual allowable cut where the cut calculation has been related
to the silvicultural system of clear cutting, based on computer modelling to predict growth and yield. Public pressure toward selection cutting and retention has developed and clear cutting is being partly replaced by retention to create a continuous forest cover system in which CFI could
be applied.
Canada and its provinces have been working towards CFI, coordinated through the Canadian Forest Inventory Committee whose objective is to measure, record and report on Canada's forest inventory and to monitor change and the forest's sustainability. This approach may also be useful to the National Forest Strategy Coalition.
Canada and its provinces have been working towards CFI, coordinated through the Canadian Forest Inventory Committee whose objective is to measure, record and report on Canada's forest inventory and to monitor change and the forest's sustainability. This approach may also be useful to the National Forest Strategy Coalition.
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Keywords: annual allowable cut; continuous forest cover; continuous forest inventory; sustainable forest management; wood lot licence
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Blue Mountain Woodlot Ltd., 1058 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Publication date: 01 December 2006
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