Habitat Supply Modeling – Practitioner’s Workshop

Nov. 23, 24, 25,  2004

Purpose: Habitat Supply Modeling has significant potential as a management tool at both the stand and landscape level. Currently, a number of different approaches are being developed in BC, and there is relatively little interchange among the modeling groups. The tools are being developed for many applications in forest management (e.g. TSR, DFAM, Land Use Decisions, FSP, UWR, SARA, Certification, First Nations Stewardship Plans, Conservation Area Design). The workshop will review the modeling activities underway, discuss methods of addressing key modeling issues (both those that have been resolved by some projects and hence approaches can be shared; and those that remain unresolved), and begin to develop guidance for practitioners and decision makers regarding the building of habitat supply models.

Products:

• Exchange of information at the workshop regarding the “how to” of habitat supply modeling -- what has worked and what hasn’t
• Establish a basis for ongoing cooperation among participants; and sharing of methodologies
• Inventory of the current habitat supply modeling activities in BC
• Summary of the various methods being applied to address habitat supply modeling issues
• Discussion of the use of habitat supply modeling in TSRs, DFAMs, Land Use Decisions, FSPs, UWRs, SARA, Certification, First Nations Stewardship Plans, Conservation Area Design
• Workshop report

Location: Quaaout Lodge , Chase, BC.   250-679-3090   

Participants: See list

Workshop Format:
Project / Panel presentations and discussions
Posters of modeling projects will be invited to provide participants an opportunity to discuss model details.