SILVICULTURE
B.A. Blackwell & Associates Ltd. provides silviculture services with a professional emphasis on stewardship, forest ecology and sustainable forest management. We plan and implement silviculture programs of all sizes and complexities, with a focus on quality control.
OUR EXPERTISE INCLUDES
Silviculture Surveys or Surveying
- Silviculture Surveying completed for forest licensees (including woodlots), BC Timber Sales, and BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
- Compliance single and multi-layered surveys including Regeneration Delay and Free Growing surveys
- Planting quality and pay plots, brushing efficacy, and stocking survival surveys
- Detailed Site Assessments for silviculture treatment prescriptions
- Post-harvest assessment surveys
- Stocking assessments for wildfire and mountain pine beetle impacted areas and Innovative Timber Sale License (ITSL) eligibility
Silviculture Policy Development and Guidance
- Site Plan Amendments, Evaluation and Development
- Expertise in preparing prescriptions using partial cutting and alternative silviculture systems
Forest Fertilization Planning and Implementation
- Completed all aspects of fertilization planning and application on more than 25,000 ha in coastal and interior ecosystems from strategic planning, prescription development, and treatment supervision to RESULTS submissions
- Fertilizer screening trials and foliar nutrient sampling
Woodlot, Community and Private Forest Management
- Ecological-based inventories, prescriptions and plans
Site Preparation, Planting, Brushing & Weeding, Spacing and Pruning
- Prescription development
- Supervision
Forest Practices Audits
- Silviculture survey and program reviews
- Site Plan and Forest Stewardship Plan reviews


