Soil Conservation Guidebook

Provides direction on how to prepare operational plans and prescriptions that require specification of limits for various types of soil disturbance during forestry operations.

Describes procedures for measuring disturbance to soil caused by forest practices.

This guidebook is intended to help forest managers assess and minimize the effect on the soil of any proposed soil-degrading forest practices involving compaction and puddling, soil displacement, forest floor displacement, surface soil erosion, and mass wasting. The guidebook rates hazards as low, moderate, high, and very high. The guidebook includes definitions, controlling site factors, management considerations, and keys to help rate those hazards. An appendix contains a listing of precipitation factors for biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia by forest region.

A stand management prescription is a document for describing actions to be carried out on a free-growing site to see that stand management activities are planned and implemented to maintain or enhance site productivity, to ensure that resource values are identified and taken into account, and to set out a series of stand management activities to produce a stand that meets the management objectives. This guide provides a logical sequence of steps on how to prepare and administer a stand management prescription in accordance with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia. These steps include identification and collection of background information, setting of stand-level resource objectives, conducting fieldwork, preparation of the final prescription, production of the stand management prescription map, and administration.

Describes how to develop a silviculture prescription - a site-specific plan that describes the forest management objectives for an area.

The Soil Conservation Technical Handbook is a comprehensive collection of know how about soil conservation. Informations have been gathered from individual knowledge along with past often unpublished, or scarce copies of printed material. The main forms of erosion are covered in this Technical Handbook are Mass movement erosion, Fluvial erosion, Surface erosion and Sediment erosion. The Handbook is divided into two parts which covers the forms and processes of the main types of erosion. More technical descriptions can be found in the references provided alongwith summary of the main control techniques and it also describes the control techniques whom provide information for the practitioner to put together a soil conservation programme. The present hand book would prove self for post graduate students of Soil Science, Agronomy and Agriculturists. Also useful for scientists involved in soil conservation programme and practitioners.