Forests for Tomorrow 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)
- Selecting a delivery agent (checklist - coming soon)
- Ensuring salvaging opportunities are exhausted prior to Prescribing an FFT-funded Overstory removal, lay to waste treatment (PDF)
- Current reforestation potentially treatable area maps
- Coastal Silviculture Opportunity Maps (PDF)
- Interior Silviculture Opportunity Maps (PDF)
Post Wildfire Assessment
- Post Wildfire Assessment Overview (PDF)
- Wildfire Maps for FFT
- High resolution digital camera sampling catalogue
Stand Management Guidance
- Silviculture treatment 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)
Planting
- Seed Planning and Registry System (SPAR)
- Recommended seedling stock type selections (PDF)
- Seedling ordering deadlines (PDF)
- Sowing deadline Memo (PDF)
- Treeplanting information
- Tree Species Selection Tool
Forest Health
- Forest Health Hazard Maps (RESULTS data) - (SEDA data)
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
- Silvicultural regimes for fuel management in the wildland urban interface or adjacent to high landscape values - guidance (PDF)
- Fire-resistant landscapes - discussion paper (PDF)
- Fire Management Stocking Standards Guidance
Managing for Other Products or Non-timber Values/Resources
- Silviculture regimes for range management - guidance (PDF)
- Silviculture Guidelines and Practices for Maintaining or Recruiting Key Habitat Objectives (PDF)
- Silviculture options for Mountain Caribou (PDF)
- Fibre Plantations In British Columbia (Land Based Investment Program) (PDF)
- Maintaining soil productivity in forest biomass chipping operations best management practices for soil conservation
Incremental internal rate of return (Inc-IRR)
- Inc-IRR Information / Training / Guidance documents
- Site index estimates by site series (SIBEC)
- Procedures for initializing TIPSY with silviculture survey data (PDF)
- Initializing TIPSy with silviculture survey data (PPT)
Safety
- Forest Safety Action Plan
- Safety information and resources (Note: this is a Government Internal Site and can not be accessed outside of government)
- Resource Road User Safety Guide (PDF)
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)
- Reducing vulnerabilities and promoting resilience of BC's natural and human systems through adaption of post-disturbance land management options
- Forest For Tomorrow - Introduction to Adaptive Management Extension Note #1 (PDF)
- Large wildfires regeneration report (1999-2011) (PDF)
