Defined Forest Area Management Specified Forest Health Obligations

1. Defined Forest Area ManagementSpecified Forest Health Obligations Presented to XXX by XXX Ministry of Forests February 2003

2. Presentation Objectives • Overview • Principles of Forest Health DFAM policy • Policy Highlights • Timelines & Workflows • Scope of Work requirements • Standards

3. Overview – Forest Health & DFAM • Under DFAM Specified Forest Health Obligations become a responsibility of: • Replaceable Forest & Timber Sales Licenses • BCTS • DFAM Forest Health Obligations over and above • responsibilities under FPC • Commercial timber harvesting to address forest health factors • DFAM obligations do not include aerial treatment of defoliators • Remain a provincial responsibility

4. Forest Health DFAM Principles • Level of obligations similar to those achieved by MOF • Obligations do not include commercial harvesting • Remains responsibility of individual licensee • Provincial Forest Health Strategy - guide implementation of DFAM obligations • As long as standards are achieved, diversity of approaches will be acceptable • Provide efficiency while ensuring completeness

5. DFAM Obligations Government Obligations ·Conduct detailed aerial and ground surveys. ·Prepare an annual forest health strategy for the TSA. ·Define performance measures for specific strategies and tactics. ·Produce an annual report describing activities and outcomes. ·Monitor and evaluate activities. ·Conduct (non-commercial harvesting) spot treatments to standards established in the forest health strategy. ·Conduct aerial treatment of defoliator epidemics. Policy Highlights - Specified Forest Health Obligations ·Conduct annual aerial overview survey on provincial forests. ·Provide annual province-wide forest health overview.

6. Timelines - Bark Beetle Areas

7. Forest Health Workflows

8. Activities & Obligations

9. ·Low—up to $100,000 of anticipated bark beetle budget allocation ·Medium— over $100,000 and up to $500,000 of anticipated bark beetle allocation budget ·High—over $500,00 of bark beetle anticipated allocation budget Scope of Work - Provincial BMU Map

10. ·Low—up to $100,000 of anticipated bark beetle budget allocation ·Medium— over $100,000 and up to $500,000 of anticipated bark beetle allocation budget ·High—over $500,00 of bark beetle anticipated allocation budget Bark Beetle Suppression Requirements by Region

11. Forest Health Standards • Standards exist or will be developed for: • DFAM Forest Health Strategy • DFAM Bark Beetle Strategy • Bark Beetle Detection and treatment • Annual Report on Forest Health Performance

12. Standards - DFAM Forest Health Strategy • Relates primarily to monitoring and addressing forest health factors before populations reach epidemic levels • Should be guided by Provincial FH Strategy • Includes: • List of significant forest health problems • Rank • Recommended activities • Proposed budget/ action plan • Bark Beetle Strategy* • Activity List • For Non-bark Beetle , priorities in TSA and goals

13. Standards - Bark Beetle Strategy • TSA stratified into Beetle Management Units (BMU) • Forest Health Strategy must contain BB Strategy as an appendix • BB Strategy contains: • Beetle Management Unit Strategies • Targets for treatments • Determination of how targets will be met through balance of harvesting and single tree treatments

14. Standards - BB Detection & Treatment • Contract Standards available at : http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/forsite/fia/bark_beetle.htm • SOP and guidelines available at through MOF Regional and forest health specialists: • Standards for Non-BB detection found in Forest Health Surveys Guidebook at: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/TASB/LEGSREGS/FPC/FPCGUIDE/health/healtoc.htm • Variance from standard allowed with DM approval

15. Standards - Forest Health Activity Report • Annual report required where detection and treatment activity occurred • Included in the report: • For suppression BMU’s, DFAMs the level of performance for each BMU; and • Financial figures on how much was spent by each activity.

16. Summary • Specified Forest Health Obligations will become responsibility of DFAM group • Work will be required on regulations • Transition still to be determined

17. End of Technical Forest Health Presentation By XXX