Forest Health Surveys In British Columbia

Assists field practitioners in determining forest health issues and the incidence of forest health factors in high hazard forest ecosystems.

This guidebook is intended to assist field practitioners in determining forest health issues and the incidence of forest health factors in high-hazard forest ecosystems. The first section describes the attributes of hazard & risk rating and briefly outlines some available hazard & risk rating systems. Section two covers forest development plan-level surveys, and includes procedures for landscape-level forest health factor surveys. Topics covered include aerial overview surveys, classification of damage, map processing, survey for pest incidence, and windthrow risk evaluation. The final section reviews stand-level surveys. Appendices include a glossary, example inventory data & field data forms, and a table of damage agents & associated pest severity ratings.

The objectives of this report were to: provide an overview of the data collected for the 5 years 1991-1995; identify pest-affected stands using treatment levels provided by the FHG and POYS surveys pest impact codes; identify those pests that are most damaging to young stands; and identify topics related to pests of young stands that require further research.