Assessing the relative quality of old-growth forest: An example from the Robson Valley, British Columbia

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dc.contributor.authorDeLong, S. C.en
dc.contributor.authorBurton, P. J.en
dc.contributor.authorHarrison, M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialRobson Valley Forest Districten
dc.coverage.spatialBritish Columbiaen
dc.coverage.spatialCanadaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:56:20Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:56:20Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.description.abstractForest planners in British Columbia (Canada) are required to identify forests suitable for designation as Old-Growth Management Areas. However, the tools currently in use lack the ability to identify appropriate stands. In 2000, we examined the ecological attributes of older forest in the Robson Valley Forest District in east-central British Columbia. The purpose was to determine the old-growth habitat value of stands of different age classes and to develop field procedures for assessing the relative old-growth quality of stands. We examined the relationships between stand age (both photo-interpreted and field-estimated) and attributes normally associated with old forest; in particular, we evaluated the relationship between stand age and functionally important tree and coarse woody debris configurations. Results from a representative portion of our study identified several attributes that were generally more abundant in older stands. The results also demonstrated that stands less than 140 years old have poorly developed old-forest habitat attributes, whereas these attributes are consistently well developed in stands greater than 140 years old. Also, the significance of these same attributes increases only slightly with increasing stand age. We created a rank scoring system to help forestry practitioners assess old-forest stands, particularly in the Interior Cedar-Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone, in terms of their value as old-growth wildlife habitat.en
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dc.identifier1454en
dc.identifier.citationBC Journal of Ecosystems and Management 4(2): 71-86en
dc.identifier.issn1488-4666en
dc.identifier.other1454_Assessing_the_relative_quality_of_forest.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66163en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherKamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnershipen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.forrex.org/publications/jem/ISS24/vol4_no2_art8.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2004 FORREX Forest Research Extension Partnershipen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectTemperate zonesen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectForest ecosystemsen
dc.subjectResource management toolsen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectCoarse woody debrisen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectForest cover age classen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectOlder foresten
dc.subjectOld growthen
dc.subjectOld-growth habitaten
dc.subjectOld-growth managementen
dc.subjectOld-growth qualityen
dc.subjectStand ageen
dc.subjectStand assessmenten
dc.subjectStand attributesen
dc.subjectStand structureen
dc.subjectWildlife treesen
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governance Watersheden
dc.titleAssessing the relative quality of old-growth forest: An example from the Robson Valley, British Columbiaen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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