Harvest Planning. Many of the characteristics of the future stand will be determined by the silviculture system chosen to meet the goals for future wood supply. The choice of species, density, natural regeneration, or planting all have an impact. Site Preparation Site preparation is carried out to create plantable spots and facilitate planting (break up slash accumulations, reducing competing vegetation, improving soil growing conditions), to create favourable seedbed for natural regeneration, or to reduce fire hazard as required. This may be accomplished by treatments such as mechanical site preparation (excavator piling or mounding primarily). Usually the burning of debris piles at landings and along roadsides is all that is required to prepare for planting. Use of this logging residue for biomass purposes would negate the necessity for burning of piles.
Harvest Planning. The MPB essentially ended long-term operational planning on the Community Forest as all efforts were focused on salvaging the deal Pl. As the end of sawlog shelf-life approaches and we transition to the mid-term, strategic and operational planning will become critical. During 2016, the results of the forest management investments started in August 2015 should provide important new information. The Forest Estate Modelling with information from land use plans, economic data, new wildlife and biodiversity information, the new VRI and a much better understanding of the harvesting and marketing challenges of the dead Pl (sawlogs, pulp and bioenergy fibre), will be used to run a variety of scenarios addressing shelf-life, economics, and strategies to mitigate the timber supply shortfall. Ultimately, this will result in an annual operational and 5-year plan, with 10- and 20-year tactical plans coming from the forest estate modelling and an update to Management Plan 3.
Harvest Planning
