Wildlife and habitat inventory for a results-based Forest Practices Code

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dc.contributor.authorPendergast, B.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialBritish Columbiaen
dc.coverage.spatialCanadaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:10:49Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:10:49Zen
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.description.abstractTwo significant changes are occurring within the forest industry in British Columbia, both of which will necessitate a greater reliance on species and habitat monitoring and inventories. First, as British Columbia moves towards adopting the "New Era" principles of the provincial government, the Forest Practices Code will change from regulatory-based to "results-based". This means that forest companies will have to be monitored to ensure they meet the desired results outlined by the provincial government. Second, market pressures increasingly demand that forest companies be certified as “sustainable” under one of several certification schemes. All certification regimes require that companies be monitored to ensure biodiversity objectives within their sustainable forest management (SFM) plans are achieved. To meet these monitoring requirements, forest companies and the provincial government will need representative, feasible, reliable, and applicable indicators of wildlife and habitat values. Fortunately, British Columbia has several species and habitat inventories that can be used to develop indicators for both certification regimes and the results-based code implementation. This paper reviews the available inventories in British Columbia and provides an overview of the usefulness of these inventories for monitoring within SFM planning and the results-based code. In general, criteria and indicators developed from the province's habitat inventories can be used immediately to monitor forest management practices; however, these habitat inventories need refined species-habitat models to be most useful. Although direct monitoring of wildlife is important for rare and endangered species and to determine the effects of forest management practices, species inventories are generally less useful for this purpose. Recommendations are provided to ensure the usefulness of inventories in monitoring compliance with the results-based code and meeting the needs of SFM planning.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier1539en
dc.identifier.citationBC Journal of Ecosystems and Management 2(2): 1-8en
dc.identifier.issn1488-4666en
dc.identifier.other1539_Wildlife_and_habitat_inventory.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66384en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherKamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnershipen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.forrex.org/publications/jem/ISS13/vol2_no2_art6.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2002 FORREX Forest Research Extension Partnershipen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectTemperate zonesen
dc.subjectForest ecosystemsen
dc.subjectModelingen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectResource management toolsen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleWildlife and habitat inventory for a results-based Forest Practices Codeen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
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