Silviculture

Silviculture programs: plan and implement large and small scale basic and intensive silviculture programs, including site preparation, planting, brushing and weeding, spacing, pruning, fertilization, cone collection, and comprehensive silviculture and forest health surveys.
Silviculture Prescriptions: evaluate and prepare SP's and amendments for all silviculture systems and harvesting methods. The firm has specific expertise in preparing prescriptions using partial cutting and alternative silviculture systems.
Stand Management Prescriptions: evaluate and prepare SMP's for spacing, pruning, fertilization and commercial thinning.
Second growth management and planning: conduct landscape and stand level mapping and planning to meet management objectives.
Sensitive-site management: evaluate and prepare prescriptions for the management of sensitive areas such as high elevation sites, talus slopes, and dry or poorly drained sites. The firm also specializes in identification of, and recommendations for, poorly performing stands such as "offsite" Douglas-fir plantations.
Woodlot and private forest management: prepare ecological-based inventory, prescriptions, and plans for managing woodlots, First Nations and private land.

Development of Western red cedar strategy forWestern Forest Products
Develoment of silviculture investment strategies for ??????
Development of an enhanced forestry program for Timberwest's TFL 46
Silviculture Planning and Prescription development for CRD Water as part of the Sooke Reservoir Expansion Project
Development of fertilization plans for the Soo TSA and Chilliwack Forest District
Development of fertilization plans for the Soo TSA and Chilliwack Forest District
Implementation, contract supervision, and monitoring of aerial fertilization programs
Silviculture Prescriptions (SP) and SP Amendments for numerous coastal government and industry clients
Stand Management Prescriptions (SMP) and pre-stand tending surveys for fertilization, spacing and pruning for numerous coastal government and industry clients
Development and implementation of an integrated ecosystem/stand mapping survey of the lower Chehalis Valley (5,000 ha) for the Chilliwack Forest District
Forest Management Evaluation of Cheam I.R. #1 and Camp Squeah
Commercial thinning layout and marking for the Chilliwack Forest District
Root rot surveys for numerous coastal government and industry clients
Regeneration surveys for numerous coastal government and industry clients
Review and measurement of soil disturbance on numerous coastal cutblocks
Co-development of site degradation guidelines for the Vancouver Forest Region