E8 Forest Management Plan

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "E8 Forest Management Plan"

Kristian Atkinson
6 years ago
Views:

1 E8 Forest Management Plan Alberta Sustainable Resource Development in cooperation with Foothills Forest Products Forestry Division Foothills Forest Area Hinton, Alberta 1

2 2

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction...11 Above Overview picture of Foothills Forest Products facility and site Purpose and Scope of the FMP Sustainable Forest Management and Guiding Documents Planning Team Stakeholder Identification Stakeholder Identification Planning Stages and Milestones Forest Management Planning Process Integration with the Caribou Recovery Planning in E Preferred Forest Management Scenario Table 1: E8 Annual Allowable Cut Levels (adapted from the E8 TSA) Forest Management Planning History Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance in E Landscape Assessment Administrative Boundaries Figure 1: Forest Management Agreements Areas surrounding E Figure 2: Municipal District of Greenview No Figure 3: Location of Cooperatives in E Compartments Parks and Protected Areas Figure 4: Foothills Forest Products Compartment Areas Wildfire Management Areas Topography Watersheds Climate Figure 5: Wildfire Management Units in E Figure 6: Surface Topography in E Figure 7: Watersheds in E Figure 8: Climatic Regions in E Soils Glacial History Figure 10: Glacial Deposits in E Natural Sub-Regions Graph 1: The Natural Subregions in hectares found in E Figure 11: Natural Subregions in E Forest Landscape Patterns and Structure Graph 2: Area of Conifer, Deciduous and Non-forested Area in E8 (ha) Forest Species (Amount and Distribution) Graph 3: Percentage of Species Types in E Forest Cover Types Table 1: Area of Species Type in E Forest Age Class (Amount and Distribution) Figure 12: Forest Leading Tree Species in E

4 Figure 13: Cover group Distribution in E Figure 14: Forest Age Class Distribution in E Seral Stages Table 2: Seral stages in E Figure 15: Seral Stages in E Graph 6: Seral Stage Distribution in E8 (hectares) Forest Patches Graph 8: Patch Size Distribution in E Figure 16: Interior Forest Polygons using the Vector Model Figure 17: Interior Forest using the Raster Model Figure 18: Patches Greater than 100 Hectares in E Inherent Disturbance Regime Figure 19: Historical Fires in E Table 3: Forest health agents in the E8 FMU...69 Figure 20: Mountain Pine Beetle Stand Susceptibility Index for E8 (with Climate Factor) Figure 21: Mountain Pine Beetle Stand Susceptibility Index for E8 (with Climate Factor) Figure 22: Historical Cutblocks in E Figure 23: Road density in E Figure 24: Cutline Density in E Figure 24: Location of well sites, pipelines roads and grazing disposition in E Figure 25: Location of PNTs, CNTs and CNCs in E Figure 27: FRD, RDS, RRD, & ROE Dispositions in E Monitoring Sites Integrated Resource Planning Figure 28: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Program sites in E Figure 29: Monitoring Sites in E Figure 30: Eastern Slopes Policy Area in E Recreation Hiking Trail Inventory Figure 31: Canadian Death Race Trail Fish and Wildlife Resources Figure 32: Caribou Habitat using the Resource Selection Function Wildlife Management Units Table 4: Wildlife Management Units in E Figure 33: Fish Distribution in E Figure 34: Probability of Fish Capture...98 Figure 35: Wildlife Management Units in E Fur Management Zones Historical Resources Protected Areas Figure 36: Fur Management Zones Figure 37: Historical Resources in E Figure 38: Protected Areas in E Rare Plants and Animals Inventory

5 Figure 39 Rare Plant Inventory in E Table 5: Rare Plant and Animal Communities found within E Landscape Wildfire Threat Analysis Table 1. Distribution and Characteristics of Fuel Types Values at Risk Suppression Capability Fire Occurrence Fire Behaviour Potential Graph 1. Comparison of Fire Behaviour Potential classes by season Wildfire Threat Assessment Interactions with Mountain Pine Beetle Fire Management Strategies Figure 1. Regional fuel assessment based on 100m fuel grid resolution derived from AVI and updates for recent harvesting and disturbance Figure 2. Values at risk assessment: Top left Values at Risk Overall is a weighted rollup of all discrete values shown in the remaining panels Figure 3. Suppression Capability based on visibility from one or more lookout towers Figure 4. Fire Occurrence and Ignition Locations Figure 5. Fall Fire Behaviour Potential Figure 6. Wildfire Threat Assessment Figure 7. Identification of High and Extreme Ranked Mountain Pine Beetle and Fire Behaviour Potential Stands Figure 8. Community Zone locations within and adjacent to the E8 FMU. Clockwise from west to east: Grande Cache, Wanyandie Flats East Settlement, Muskeg-Seepee Settlement Values, Objectives, Indicators, and Targets for the Desired Future Forest Detailed Indicator Sheets Detailed Indicator Sheets Element Indicator Figure 1: Seral Stages used in the E8 FMP Figure 2: Age class distribution at year 0 (figure taken from the TSA) Figure 3: Age class distribution at year 20 (figure taken from the TSA) Figure 4: Seral Stage distribution in E8 at year Table 1: Gross area and percentage of seral stages over a 200 year planning horizon Indicator (a) Figure 5: Patch size distribution area by patch size class Figure 6: Patch size distribution number of patches by patch size class Table 3: Patch size distribution over time Indicator (b) Indicator (b) Figure 7: Area of interior forest in E

6 Indicator Figure 8: Map of the Smoky/Berland plan area (adapted from SRD s Information Letter ) Indicator Figure 9: Rare Plant Communities in E Table 4: Rare Plant and Animal Communities found within E Indicator Indicator Indicator (a) Indicator (b) Indicator Indicator Element Indicator (a) Figure 10: High value intactness areas and period 1 SHS in E Figure 11: Woodland caribou range boundaries and areas of occurrence in Alberta (map taken from the Alberta Woodland Caribou Recovery Plan 2005) Indicator (b) Indicator (c) Table 5: FMU E8 - Mortality Risk, RSF, Open Road Density and Safe Harbour Summary (taken from Section 13 of the FMP) Element Indicator Indicator Element 2.1: Ecosystem resilience Indicator (a) Indicator (b) Indicator Indicator (a) Table 6: Forest health agents in the E8 FMU Indicator (b) Figure 13: Mountain Pine Beetle Stand Susceptibility Index for E8 (without Climate Factor) Indicator Element 3.1: Soil quantity and quality Indicator Indicator Element 3.2: Water quantity and quality Indicator Figure 12: Hydrologic land base for planned spatial harvest in FMU E8 showing sub-basins within major drainages (From Section 14 of the FMP) Indicator Element 4.1: Timber and non-timber benefits Indicator (a) Table 6: E8 AAC levels (taken from the TSA) Indicator (b)

7 Element 4.2: Timber and non-timber benefits Indicator Indicator Indicator Table 7: LRSYA vs. AAC for years 1-20 and Table 8: E8 AAC levels (taken from the TSA) Element 5.1: Aboriginal and treaty rights and aboriginal forest values Indicator Element 5.2: Public participation and information for decision-making Indicator Foothills Forest Products Monitoring Program Road Reclamation and Monitoring Reclaimed Block Road Reforestation Success Surveys Permanent Road Monitoring Temporary Road Monitoring Erosion Control Soil Erosion Potential Actual Road Disturbance Road Inspection Report Sheet Watercourse Crossings Monitoring and Maintenance Maintenance of cross-drain culverts: Maintenance of Watercourse Crossings: Culvert Inspection Sheet Bridge Inspection Sheet Structure Retention Targets Retention Composition Coarse Woody Debris Monitoring Monitoring and Tracking Crossing Volume Tracking System Harvest Block Plan Sheet Variance Tracking (SHS) Reporting Silviculture Government Reporting Silviculture Reporting The Foothills Forest Products Approach to Reforestation Pre-Harvest Assessment (PHA) Historical Silviculture Guide Timber Supply Analysis and the Regeneration Strategy Site Preparation Drag Scarification (Shark-fin barrels and chains) Explained

8 Planting Planting Window Planting Stock Planting Microsite Selection Planting Roads and Seismic Lines C, CD, DC, and D Strata Reforestation of Wildfires Seed collection Seedling Supply Natural Sub Region Map (Seedzones) Regeneration Surveys Regeneration Survey Quality Assurance Program Plot location and establishment: Number of plots required Height measurements Species identification Seedling Density counts Competition measurements (for performance surveys only) Demerits scoring for regeneration surveys Rejection of a survey and resurveying a block: Paperwork (submission level audit) The accuracy and any follow up action of paper audits will be recorded on FFP Form Training Audit Compilation Communications Strategy for FMU E Overview Goal Objectives Messaging Tools Audiences Cost/Budget Implementation Stakeholders

9 APPENDICES Appendix 1: Timber Supply Analysis Appendix 2: Timber Supply Analysis Data Appendix 3: Yield Curve Documentation for the E8 FMU 13/07 Merchantability Appendix 4: Landbase Determination Appendix 5: Caribou Habitat Assessment Appendix 6: Analysis of Forest Management Activities on Grizzly Bear Habitat in FMU E Appendix 7: Hydrologic Assessment of Spatial Harvest Plan for Forest Management Unit E8, Near Grande Cache Alberta Appendix 8: Interior Forest Analysis for FMU E

10 10

An Example of Long-Form Audit Reporting

An Example of Long-Form Audit Reporting Special Report www.fpb.gov.bc.ca FPB/SR/15 May 2003 Introduction The Forest Practices Board is changing its approach to compliance audits of certified forest licensees.