Forests for Tomorrow Guidance
Last updated on July 8, 2025Relevant Information
Below are documents useful for guidance.
Planning
- FFT planning process map (PDF)
- LBIS Action Plan (PDF)
- Forest For Tomorrow Strategic Plan (PDF)
- Silviculture planning process (PDF)
- Roles and responsibilities (PDF)
- FFT silviculture 5-year plan instructions (PDF)
- Multiple Accounts Decision Analysis (PDF) - tool for directing investments ot those sites that best enhance multiple economic, environmental, and social values.
- Silviculture treatment regimes (PDF)
- Ensuring salvaging opportunities are exhausted prior to Prescribing an FFT-funded Overstory removal, lay to waste treatment (PDF)
Post Wildfire Assessment
Stand Management Guidance
- Silviculture funding criteria (PDF)
- Management of tree species composition (PDF)
- FFT species and density indicators and targets (PDF)
- Mixed species options for FFT - Encouraging conifer mixtures (PDF)
- An Evaluation of the Main Factors Affecting Yield Differences between Single- and Mixed-species Stands (PDF)
- Assisted Species Migration (PDF)
- FFT use of western white pine guidance (PDF)
- Seed and seedling management policy (PDF)
- Reforesting Dry Sites in the Thompson Okanagan Natural Resource Region 2020-11-17 (PDF)
- Improving Survival for Planted Interior Douglas-Fir in the Cariboo Natural Resource Region (pdf)
- Appendix 1 DCC map_2021-03-04_DCC reduced.pdf
- Appendix 1 DMH map_2021-03-04_DMH reduced.pdf
- Appendix 2 Site Visits Redacted 2021-03-30ch reduced.pdf
- Appendix 2 Site_Visit_Map_Fdi_DCC 2021-12-15ch reduced.pdf
- Appendix 2 Site_Visit_Map_Fdi_DMH 2021-12-15ch reduced.pdf
- Appendix 3 IDFdk4 direction reduced.pdf
- Appendix 4 South Area Alternative FG guidance.pdf
- Appendix 5 Supplement to FRDA Report 157.pdf
- Appendix 6 Literature Review.pdf
- Best Management Practices for Improving Survival for Planted Douglas-fir in The Cariboo Natural Resource Region.pdf
Planting
Invasive Plants
Mammal Damage
Adapting to Climate Change
- Guidance to Adapt Forest Management for Climate Change in the Kamloops TSA (PDF)
- Professional judgement should be exercised in extrapolating the results for areas outside the area modelled. Users should also note the cautions and assumptions contained in the full report and guidance document (PDF)
Managing for Wildfire
Managing for Other Products or Non-timber Values/Resources
Incremental internal rate of return (Inc-IRR)
Safety
Background Information
- Current State of Knowledge Regarding Secondary Structure in Mountain Pine Beetle Impacted Landscapes (PDF)
- Succesional responses to natural disturbance, forest management, and climate change in British Columbia (PDF)
- Forest For Tomorrow - Introduction to Adaptive Management Extension Note #1 (PDF)
- Large wildfires regeneration report (1999-2011) (PDF)