Silviculture
business under
the FRPA Act and
revised FPC
Ralph Winter
Forest Practices Branch
Feb 10, 2003
Objectives
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What are the business needs for information
What’s new for silviculture under FRPA
What’s not new
Basic Business flow in the new world
Linkage to other business
Summary
Business needs requiring data
Average Delay in reforesting areas after
harvesting
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20
Years
15
10
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New Code of 87
5
0
1970 1973 1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000
Calendar year
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Effectiveness monitoring and
evaluation of code
Silviculture compliance
monitoring and reporting
Information to Timber Supply
Review process for young
managed stands from post
harvest to free growing
Annual denudation for Area
based cut control
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
Cutblock size category
Size Distribution of Logged Openings on TSA areas Starting
FPC 1995-06-15 to 2001-12-31 for All Silvicultural Systems
0
10
>
0
.1
-1
0
80
.1
-8
0
60
.1
-6
0
50
.1
-5
0
40
.1
-4
0
30
.1
-3
0
20
.1
-2
0
10
10
0
0.
1-
Number of hectares in area
class
TSA Cutblock Size Statistics
Business needs requiring data
Hectares
Inventory Density Classes for All TSAs in BC
1,200,000
1,000,000
800,000
600,000
400,000
200,000
0
>10000
9001-10000
8001-9000
7001-8000
6001-7000
5001-6000
4001-5000
3001-4000
2001-3000
1001-2000
1-1000
Inventory Density Classes
14.00%
12.00%
10.00%
8.00%
6.00%
4.00%
2.00%
Fiscal year
ISIS Query 2003-01-23 for Tom Niemann
20
02
20
01
20
00
19
99
19
98
19
97
19
96
19
95
19
94
19
93
0.00%
19
92
Percent of total cutblock
area with mature timber
Provincial average of total cutblock area
containing mature timber after harvesting
Business needs requiring data
Reserve Distribution on all TSAs Based on Forest Cover
0%
28%
0%
0%
3%
37%
3%
10%
0%
6%
12%
0%
1%
No Reserve (blank)
1 No Reserve
2 Dispersed
3 Group
4 Mixed
5 Other Reserve
6 Riparian
7 Uniform
8 Variable
9 Wildlife Tree Patch
Business needs requiring data
Provincial Summary of Trees Planted by Genetic Class
on Logged Areas in TSAs and TFLs
80
60
B Class
40
A Class
20
Planting Year
TF
20
01
L
20
00
L
19
99
TF
TF
L
19
98
L
19
97
TF
TF
L
19
96
TF
L
20
01
A
20
00
TS
A
19
99
TS
A
19
98
TS
A
19
97
TS
A
TS
A
19
96
0
TS
Percent
100
Business needs requiring data
Provincial Average of % Permanent Access Within
Logged Cutblocks on TSAs and TFLs from 1995 to 2001
6
5
4
3
2
1
Disturbance Year
TFL 2001
TFL 2000
TFL 1999
TFL 1998
TFL 1997
TFL 1996
TFL 1995
TSA 2001
TSA 2000
TSA 1999
TSA 1998
TSA 1997
TSA 1996
0
TSA 1995
% Permanent Access*
7
Business needs requiring data
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Queen Charlotte TSA - Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Species
Composition Using Previous Stand Label
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80%
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70%
60%
50%
40%
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30%
20%
10%
Post Harv est Silv iculture
0%
CW
DR
Post harv esting Inv entory
HW
PLC
PLI
Leading Species
Prev ious Stand Label
SS
SX
YC
Species conversion reports
Report on C & I for SFM
BC’s State of the Forest
Forest stewardship (i.e.
SFI)
CCFM federal forestry
reporting obligations
(national forestry
database)
Business needs requiring data:
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Performance measures/annual reporting
Use information from existing practices to
support the development legislation and policy
(e.g.. modification of standards, confirmation
of innovative forestry practices)
Internal MOF workload analysis (FTE, C&E
risk assessment and priority setting, etc.)
Business needs requiring data:
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Cumulative Basic Silviculture Expenditure by Year
for ML and SBFEP
$250,000,000
Total Cost
$200,000,000
$150,000,000
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$100,000,000
$50,000,000
$0
87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00
Activity Year
Survey
Site Prep
Planting
Brushing
Spacing
Seedling
Tracking silviculture
obligations/liabilities on nonreplaceable forest licences
(NRFL) and licensees who
become insolvent
Countervail and others
Forest level
Stand level
specifies conditions
& end results
guides
FSPs and Sustainable
Forest Mgmt Plans
Operational Plans
requires information
Information systems
TSR AAC Scenarios
uses information
m3/ha
ha
Growth & Yield
supports simulation
and modelling
years
age class species
m3/yr
0 to 200 yrs
Legal Requirement
•Annual report
Agreements
•National Forestry
Database
•Criteria & indicators
Corporate Stewardship
• Performance measures
Current total ISIS Scope
Total of number of Openings:
Representing Coverage:
Total Timber Harvesting Landbase (THLB):
Proportion of Total THLB:
175,000
7.7 million ha
23 million ha
33.5%
Annual number of new openings:
Annual area of new openings:
7,400 approx.
212,000 ha
Duration of silviculture obligation
until free growing:
15 to 20 years
ISIS receives significant amounts of
Forest Cover/land status updates (FC) annually
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200,000 ha of FC info on
new harvest areas
200,000 ha of FC info at
regen delay
200,000 ha of FC info at free
growing
400,000 of pre-87 pre
treatment and and post
treatment FC info
3/4 to 1 million ha of Forest
Cover updates annually
Current State
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Since 1987 Licensees are required to do Forest Cover
and Map updates on new harvest areas
Licensees are required to do Forest Cover and Map
updates on areas treated with FIA funds
40% EDT transmission
MOF staff involved in keypunching the other 60% of
Basic silv data
significant timeliness issues, some data quality issues
FIA data is sent electronically for centralized process
Current State
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forest cover attribute info submitted on the FS 708C
manually transcribed into VEGCAP - no automated
transfer
forest cover map info submitted on paper maps and
then transcribed manually onto District forest cover
base maps - no automated transfer
Currently limited (or no) map up-dating by MSRM
industry does not have easy access to own records
limited MAPVIEW use or functionality for day-day
operations
Retooling of ISIS into RESULTS
- VM platform is shutting down as of July 2003
- IMG is rewriting all applications to Oracle
- ISIS/MLEDT applications will have to be rebuilt/redesigned
and there is an opportunity align to RBC and emerging
business needs
- FPB will give best-approximation of business need despite
RBC consultation process not complete until Nov-Dec in
order to meet July 2003 target
- Sufficient lead-time is required to articulate business changes,
if any, to licensees so that they can prepare and make
changes to their own in-house data management systems
Retooling of ISIS into RESULTS
- silviculture application built based on new business
requirements supplied by FPB (e.g. RBC, DFAM, etc.)
- will tie to MLEDT (electronic data transfer) project to
facilitate mandatory electronic submission
- will be web-based (easy access for all and user-friendly
menus)
- will be spatially-enabled (can capture mapping
linework)
The Future State
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Web-based or EDT transfer of all map and attribute
info from industry (primary source)
industry submitted digital information provided meets
clear standards for quality and timeliness
No MoF staff intervention
ISIS will be retooled and called RESULTS
Information in RESULTS will be easily reported on
and accessed by licensees
Information resides in RESULTS or is transferred to
MSRM at set periods
What new for legislation
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A new Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) will be enacted Replace FPC Act. Effective date later this spring 2003
Will require development of comprehensive forest stewardship
plans (FSP) which articulate, objectives, values and standards for
licensee performance
the FSP will be a pivotable document.
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Has some similar content to TFL management plan but with a section
which is signed off by SDM which controls standards
Expect it will take up to 2 years for all management units and or
individual licensees to develop forest stewardship plans
What new
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To enable the phase in and transition to the FRPA,
transition provisions were made to Forest Practice
Code Act
Bill 75 will govern business during the transition
period up to April 2005.
FPC regulations have been revised to help transition
the new FRPA requirements
Regulations effective Dec 17, 2002
What new
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No more new silviculture prescriptions to be submitted
for DM approval
74,000 pages/year of officially required prescriptions
will not be submitted or stored at the district
However, licensees will be required to prepare and
have on file site plans (SPs)
Site plans must contain pre-approved stocking
standards that have been assigned to the site by a
forester
What new
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No more backlog silviculture prescriptions
existing backlog obligations removed
no requirement for mandatory silviculture prescriptions
on current fire and pest areas
no more stand management prescriptions
What new
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Pre-approved stocking standards will come from
approved stocking standards contained in an Forest
Development Plan or FSP
Each stocking standard will be given a unique regime
id to facilitate communication and assignment to
standards units
What's not new
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Existing Silviculture prescription standards and
associated obligations will continue to apply to existing
cutblocks
For new cutblocks and associated site plans, stocking
standards will continue to contain most of the same
elements we have had in place for 20 years
concept of standards units remains the same
survey procedures stay the same
What's not new
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reporting requirements largely remain the same except
 licensees must transmit all attribute and map
information electronically
 no district data entry
 form A - identification of which approved stocking
standards have been assigned to a block will be reinstituted
Basic Business Flow
CF or FSP Standards
applied to the standards
units within a cutblock
FS 708 Form B
Harvesting Activities
FS708 Form B
Silviculture Activities
No Forms to District office
No Data Entry
Licensee X
Information System
Licensee enter information via web
Electronic Data Transfer
FS 708 Form C
Forest Cover
FS658 SILV SURVEY
PLOT
FS659 SILV SURVEY
SUMMARY
FS810 FOREST COVER
DATA ENTRY
Opening
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Polygon
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Polygon
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Polygon
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Corporate Database
RESULTS
Option for FDP or FSP to contain
approved stocking standards
An FDP or Forest
Stewardship Plan
(FSP)
For Defined Forest
Unit
Silviculture Strategy
- a section contained
within the FDP or FSP
document
Silviculture Strategy
Section 1: Pre-Free
Growing Standards:
(e.g. Stocking Standards
for SU) based on:
- Regime id and objective
- Species
- Site Series
A defined forest unit will have its
own stocking standards
On a cutblock specific basis - a forester assigns
approved FDP or FSP stocking standards to each area
or standards unit in the block
For each area a licensee harvests, it will be required to
establish a free growing stand in accordance with
standards
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All cutblocks will
have licensee
specific FDP or FSP
standards.
All net areas to be
reforested must
meet the standards
No later than completion of harvest a licensee must electronically
submit Form A plus a map which identifies which stocking
standards have been assigned to a cutblock
By May 31 of each year submit electronically a record of the
harvested and silviculturally treated area completed in the previous
fiscal year on the cutblock.
Upon completion of harvest, and on or before regeneration delay
and free growing date, submit electronically a map and forest cover
of the cutblock. Also declare that post harvest, regeneration and
free growing obligations/standards have been met
RESULTS is the new information system to track, report and
analyse progress on free growing obligations. There will be
direct software linkages of system to other systems and
business areas
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Linkage to forest tenure administration system
Linkage to the compliance information management
system
Linkage to the PWC reporting system called FIRS
Linkage to seed planning and administration system
Vegetation inventory updates
MAPVIEW updates
Timber Supply Review
Transfer of information to MSRM
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Digital maps of the opening and internal polygon linework will be regularly transmitted to MSRM from
RESULTS
MSRM will merge digital opening map information
with the 1:20,000 maps
RESULTS will be the main source of forest cover
information on harvested polygons for ~0-20 years (3/4
to 1 million ha per year)
after 20 years, the regular inventory update process
will provide updated information for the area
Corporate Database
RESULTS
Forest Cover Attributes and Spatial
files electronically transferred to MSRM
FS 708 Form C
Forest Cover
FS658 SILV SURVEY
PLOT
FS659 SILV SURVEY
SUMMARY
FS810 FOREST COVER
DATA ENTRY
Opening
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123
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124
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MSRM VEG
files
New spatial and attribute info on individual Forest Cover
polygons from RESULTS are merged with overall
Vegetation inventory files at MSRM
FS 708 Form C
Forest Cover
FS658 SILV SURVEY
PLOT
FS659 SILV SURVEY
SUMMARY
Opening
82L 050 0.0 1234
Polygon
123
FS810 FOREST COVER
DATA ENTRY
Mapview
Polygon
124
Polygon
125
Transfer of information to users
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MAPVIEW will provide live
basic queries and color theming
(i.e. where are all the blocks
with wildlife trees reserved) for
information contained in
RESULTS
When requested, MSRM will
transfer complete veg graphics
and forest inventory information
to TSB or the DFAM consortia
Information used for TSR and silviculture
strategies and to guide future harvests and
silviculture regimes and standards
Designing: Regen Delay
Regen delay affects both the
amount and timing of yield!
Merch vol (m3/ha)
12.5 cm U, SI 19
350
300
250
20% increase in yield at age 60
OR
200
Time to 150 m3/ha reduced by 7 yrs
150
100
50
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Age (yrs)
1400 planted Pl, 2 yr regen delay
3000 natural Pl, 7 yr regen delay
80
Information used for TSR and silviculture
strategies and to guide future harvests and
silviculture regimes and standards
Communication and Progress
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For information on the VMAR intiative see
http://wwwinternal.for.gov.bc.ca/isb/vmapp/results/
For a look an feel of the prototype see
http://victoria.pangaeainc.com/ProjectSites/results_
admin/Section1/prototype/index.htm
design and tech documentation done
looking for regional/district volunteers to help in
testing, implementation
training design underway
considering centralized data entry till system up
Conclusion
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74,000 pages of prescriptions don’t come to district
office
RESULTS must work to define which standards have
been assigned to each cutblock and where.
RESULTS will record harvesting and silviculture
accomplishments
RESULTS will provide Key veg inventory update
capabilities for MSRM and TSR for second growth
web based tool will provide ongoing licensee
performance records, compliance monitoring, and code
effectiveness evaluation for the ministry
The New FRPA
and RESULTS