geo forestry

Question 1

old growth forests

Answer 1

trees over 200 years old.
High timber volumes, while second growth on these sites will have much lower volumes.

Question 1

Innovations that allowed mills to be located far away from logging opperations.

Answer 1

Oxen and horses, steam driven donkey machines, forest railways, helicopters, rafting logs and bundle booms.

Question 2

Issues around clear cutting

Answer 2

loss of wildlife, habitat, erosion, impacts on rivers and streams, and water quality on fish habitat.

Question 3

Forest practices code

Answer 3

reduced the size of clear cuts and brought in stream protection measures. decommissioning of old logging roads, replanting, and stream restoration.

Question 4

Forest practices board

Answer 4

established by provincial government to inspect forestry practices.

Question 5

Tenure

Answer 5

Land granted to companies to harvest provincial forest lands. The government gets revenue in return.

Question 6

Timber supply areas

Answer 6

forest land available for harvest is divided into timber supply areas throught the province.

Question 7

Tree farm licence

Answer 7

Tenure type; large area based tenure that gives forest companies 25 years of exclusive harvesting rights in a certain area.
Companies are responsible for all forest management in the area.

Question 8

Forest licence

Answer 8

tenure type; 15 year renewable term.

Question 9

annual allowance cut

Answer 9

rate of harvest set, or volume of wood allowed to be harvested for each tenure in each timber supply area.

Question 10

CORE

Answer 10

they did several studies and undertook broad land use plans on VI, Cariboo, and the West and East Kootenays.
Outlined what areas should be protected and what areas could be used for resource extraction, including logging.

Question 11

culmination age

Answer 11

the age at which the tree reaches an economic profitability stage. There is enough wood on the tree to make it profitable to cut.

Question 12

the fall down effect

Answer 12

results in the annual allowance cut up to 30 percent as old-growth forests are eliminated and there is not enough trees that are second growth to fill the gap.

Question 13

eco-forestry

Answer 13

refers to new ways of looking at the management of forest ecosystems.

Question 14

ecosystem based approach to forestry

Answer 14

the focus is maintaining ecosystem functions, forestry is important, but isn’t the highest priority.