Silviculture business under the FRPA Act and revised FPC

1. Silviculture business under the FRPA Act and revised FPC Ralph Winter/Paul Rehsler Forest Practices Branch July 7, 2003

2. Objectives • What are the business needs for silviculture information • What’s new for silviculture under FRPA • What’s not new • Basic Business flow in the new world • Linkage to other business • Summary

3. Business needs requiring data • 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 New Code of 87

4. TSA Cutblock Size Statistics Size Distribution of Logged Openings on TSA areas Starting FPC 1995-06-15 to 2001-12-31 for All Silvicultural Systems

5. Business needs requiring data

6. Provincial average of total cutblock area containing mature timber after harvesting ISIS Query 2003-01-23 for Tom Niemann

7. Business needs requiring data

8. Business needs requiring data

9. Business needs requiring data

10. Business needs requiring data • 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)

11. Business needs requiring data: • Performance measures/annual reporting - KOI • reviews of existing practices to support the development of new legislation, policy, standards, & confirmation of innovative forestry practices • Forest Practice Board evaluations of forest practice (ie recent FG audit)

12. Business needs requiring data: • Tracking silviculture obligations/liabilities on non-replaceable forest licences (NRFL) and licensees who become insolvent • MOF workload analysis (FTE, C&E risk assessment and priority setting, etc.) • Countervail and others

13. Forest level specifies conditions & end results guides FSPs and Sustainable Forest Mgmt Plans Stand level requires information Operational Plans TSR AAC Scenarios ha age class species • Legal Requirement • Annual report • Agreements • National Forestry Database • Criteria & indicators • Corporate Stewardship • Performance measures m3/yr Growth & Yield m3/ha 0 to 200 yrs supports simulation and modelling years Some submissions are required by Law and some required by FIA electronic or paper submits information inspections & monitoring updates inventory reports Information systems uses information

14. Current total ISIS Scope Total of number of Openings: 175,000 Representing Coverage: 7.7 million ha Total Timber Harvesting Landbase (THLB): 23 million ha Proportion of Total THLB:33.5% Annual number of new openings: 7,400 approx. Annual area of new openings: 212,000 ha Duration of silviculture obligation until free growing: 15 to 20 years

15. ISIS receives significant amounts of Forest Cover/land status updates (FC) annually • 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 • 150-400,000 ha of new forest cover info on pre-87 areas • 3/4 to 1 million ha of Forest Cover updates annually

16. Current State • Since 1987 Licensees are required provide 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 • Until recently 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

17. Current State • 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 map up-dating by MSRM • industry does not have easy access to own records • limited MAPVIEW use or functionality for day-day operations

18. Retooling of ISIS into RESULTS - VM platform is shutting down this year - IMG is rewriting all applications to Oracle - ISIS/MLEDT applications have to be rebuilt/redesigned and there was an opportunity to align with the new code and emerging business needs - July-Nov 2002, FPB gave best-approximation of FRPA business needs to meet July 2003 target - Sufficient lead-time was required to articulate business changes to licensees so that they could prepare and make changes to their own in-house data management systems

19. Retooling of ISIS into RESULTS - silviculture application built based on new business requirements supplied by FPB - will build off the successes of MLEDT (electronic data transfer) project to facilitate mandatory electronic submission - web-based (easy access for all and user-friendly menus) - is spatially-enabled (can capture digital mapping info)

20. The future with RESULTS • Web-based or ESF transfer of all map and attribute info from industry and BCTS • submitted digital information provided meets clear standards for quality and timeliness • No MoF staff intervention • Information in RESULTS will be easily reported on and accessed by licensees • Information resides in RESULTS or is transferred to MSRM at set periods

21. What’s new for legislation • A revised Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) will be passed in November and enacted early in 2004 • Will require development of comprehensive forest stewardship plans (FSP) which articulate objectives, results and strategies for licensee performance • the FSP will be a pivotable document. • is signed off by SDM and sets the key standards

22. What’s new • To enable the phase in and transition to the FRPA, transition provisions were made to Forest Practice Code Act • Bill 75 - amendments to the FPC - will govern business during the transition period up to April 2005. • FPC regulations have been revised to help transition to the new FRPA requirements • Regulations effective Dec 17, 2002

23. What’s new • No 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

24. What’s new • 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

25. What’s new • 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

26. What's not new • Existing SP standards and obligations continue to apply on 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 • reporting requirements largely remain the same except licensees must transmit all attribute and map information electronically

27. Basic Business Flow

28. FS 708 Form B Harvesting Activities FS708 Form B Silviculture Activities Corporate Database RESULTS Licensee X Information System Licensee enter information via web Opening 82L 050 0.0 1234 Electronic Data Transfer Polygon 124 FS 708 Form C Forest Cover Polygon 123 Polygon 125 FS658 SILV SURVEY PLOT FS659 SILV SURVEY SUMMARY FS810 FOREST COVER DATA ENTRY CF or FSP Standards applied to the standards units within a cutblock No Forms to District office No Data Entry

29. 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

30. A defined forest unit will have its own stocking standards

31. Results will allow licensees topropose standards on the web and

32. have DM do approvals of standards or amendments online also

33. On a cutblock specific basis - a forester assigns approved FDP or FSP stocking standards to each area or standards unit in the block

34. For each area a licensee harvests, it will be required to establish a free growing stand in accordance with standards • All cutblocks will have licensee specific FDP or FSP standards. • All net areas to be reforested must meet the standards

35. 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

36. Results will record the standards that have been assigned to a cutblock and copy in all the associated values

37. 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.

38. RESULTS will record basic harvesting & accomplishments - for non replaceable forest licences & FIA … ability to plan

39. 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

40. RESULTS will keep a record of forest cover and land status

41. RESULTS will keep a record of the licensee’s key milestone declarations (DN, RG, FG)

42. RESULTS will have linkages to other systems and business areas including • forest tenure administration system • compliance information management system • PWC reporting system called FIRS • Seed Planning and Administration System • Vegetation inventory updates • MAPVIEW updates • Timber Supply Review

43. The ESF and Results will transfer information to MSRM • Digital maps of the opening and internal polygon line-work 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

44. Forest Cover Attributes and Spatialfiles electronically transferred to MSRM Corporate Database RESULTS Opening 82L 050 0.0 1234 Polygon 124 FS 708 Form C Forest Cover Polygon 123 Polygon 125 FS658 SILV SURVEY PLOT FS659 SILV SURVEY SUMMARY FS810 FOREST COVER DATA ENTRY MSRM VEG files

45. New spatial and attribute info on individual Forest Cover polygons from RESULTS are merged with overall Vegetation inventory files at MSRM Opening 82L 050 0.0 1234 Polygon 124 FS 708 Form C Forest Cover Polygon 123 Polygon 125 FS658 SILV SURVEY PLOT FS659 SILV SURVEY SUMMARY FS810 FOREST COVER DATA ENTRY Mapview

46. Transfer of information to users • MAPVIEW will provide live basic queries and color theming for information contained in RESULTS • When requested, MSRM will transfer complete veg graphics and forest inventory information to TSB or the DFAM consortia

47. Information used for TSR and silviculture strategies and to guide future harvests and silviculture regimes and standards

48. Information used for TSR and silviculture strategies and to guide future harvests and silviculture regimes and standards

49. Communication and Progress • For information on the VMAR intiative see http://wwwinternal.for.gov.bc.ca/isb/vmapp/results/ • For a look an feel of the prototype contact Paul Rehsler/John Gallimore • Version one completed • regional/district volunteers are doing user testing • web based training tutorial completed • Expect release of RESULTS in October 2003 • training and support to accompany release

50. Interim Service Centers • 3 new service centers to provide interim Form A, B, and C data entry service and map updates till the ESF, RESULTS and licensees fully functional • Coastal Region • Chartwell Consultants Ltd. North Vancouver • Northern Interior Region • Integrated Woods Services Ltd Kamloops • Northern Interior Region • J.S. Thrower & Associates Ltd Kamloops