Province has 10 Year Forest Inventory Plan
Friday, February 22, 2013 @ 1:14 PM
Prince George, B.C. – Minister of Forests, Steve Thomson has announced the Province has developed a ten year plan to address forest inventory issues.
In his luncheon address to the Association of BC Forest Professionals in Prince George, Thomson outlined the new Inventory strategy which will see the Province spend, on average, $8 million dollars a year, add four new staff to the forest inventory team, and prioritize the inventory work.
The areas to be studied first are:
Quesnel, Vanderhoof Forest District, Lakes and 100 Mile House Timber Supply Areas. Those areas are deemed to be the hardest hit by the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic.
The second grouping would see inventory detail completed for Prince George, Williams Lake, Ft. St. James, Morise, Mackenzie, Kamloops and Merritt TSAs.
The third priority areas are: Dawson Creek, Lillooet, Bulkley, Invermere, Robson Valley, Cranbrook, Arrow, Okanagan, Kootenay Lake, Golden and Boundary Timber Supply Areas.
Information produced by the forest inventory program is used in a variety of ways including silviculture or timber-harvest planning, habitat mapping and wildfire risk assessment. An accurate inventory is critical to planning for the mid-term timber supply in a post mountain pine beetle forestry sector.
Comments
Then what?
heyyy elections coming up.. Gotta create jobs…
I’m confused. When I read the article, I’m wondering if the headline should actually be:
“Province Plans to Develop a 10 Year Forest Inventory Plan”
or..
Province Plans to take ten years to develop Forestry Inventory Plan
What they’re saying is that it will take 10 years to complete the inventories of those areas.
Or.. Liberals need all the publicity they an as long as its spun to make themselves look good
What it says to me is this:
1.The province has not invested in maintaining and accurate information base required to determine the type, volume, quality and location of timber stock in place. I can see that a major event such as the MPB epidemic will have an abnormal impact. However, that is not enough of an excuse to have lost all track of what we have sitting in our forested lands nor is it an excuse for taking 10 years to get back to standard, if we ever had a reliable standard. Maybe we were just flying by the seat of our guesstimating pants.
2.The fact that it will take 10 years shows that it is not important enough to get done quickly with multiple teams working together each focusing on a different region. In other words, 10 years means that there will be regions where the seat of the pants guesstimating will remain the status quo. Itâs something like having a clothing store selling jeans and not knowing what style, colour, manufacturing, and sizes are located in the stockroom because no one kept records of inventory sold and inventory replenished.
3.Until the inventory is complete, it will be useless to attempt BSing though another set of AAC determinations.
Why is it that municipalities, provinces and the feds are suffering from the same illness at this time? Or has that always been the case and modern communications are allowing the general population observe what appears to mediocrity all too often?
This is not the way to compete in the world marketplace.
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