An ecological rationale for sustainable forest management concepts at Riverside Forest Products, southcentral British Columbia | Zendy

Robert G. D’Eon | Zendy; Daryll M. Hebert | Zendy; Stephen L Viszlai | Zendy

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An ecological rationale for sustainable forest management concepts at Riverside Forest Products, southcentral British Columbia

Author(s) -

Robert G. D’Eon,

Daryll M. Hebert,

Stephen L Viszlai

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

the forestry chronicle

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1499-9315

pISSN - 0015-7546

DOI - 10.5558/tfc80341-3

Subject(s) - sustainable forest management , forest management , context (archaeology) , environmental resource management , geography , forest ecology , zoning , ecology , agroforestry , forestry , ecosystem , environmental science , political science , archaeology , law , biology

Riverside Forest Products (Kelowna, British Columbia) has embraced a sustainable forest management approach for the management of one its forest tenuresTree Farm License 49. This document discusses the rationale behind many of the concepts within this approach in the context of current ecological theory. We focus specifically on the following concepts: (1) forest retention, (2) ecosystem representation, (3) ecological contributions from unharvested forests, (4) zoning and the TRIAD approach, (5) stand-level habitat elements and landscape-level features, and (6) ecological indicators. This document provides an example of the application of current ecological theory within a commercial forestry operation in Canada and is thus broadly applicable to foresters, forest managers, and researchers in most jurisdictions. Key words: British Columbia, criteria and indicators, ecological representation, forest retention, sustainable forest management, Riverside Forest Products, TRIAD

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