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Click here to add text Click here to add text Diane Nicholls, Assistant Deputy Minister Chief Forester for the province of BC BC landscape diversity 1. 2. Drivers of Change Climate First Nations Insects Wildfire 3.


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Diane Nicholls, Assistant Deputy Minister Chief Forester for the province of BC

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1. BC landscape – diversity 2. Drivers of Change Climate First Nations Insects Wildfire

  • 3. Mitigation Strategies for Reducing Risk

Forest Carbon Initiative Forests For Tomorrow Seed

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  • ~50,000 – 70,000 invertebrates
  • 1138 species of vertebrates
  • 1059 non-vascular plants
  • 3391 vascular plants
  • 578 lichens

Samuel Brinker Kristiina Ovaska

  • 488 bird species,
  • 142 mammal species
  • 18 reptile species,
  • 22 amphibian species,
  • 83 freshwater fish species
  • 368 saltwater fish species

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Timber Harvesting Land Base: 22 million ha Annual area harvested: ~ 200,000 ha Total area of B.C.: 95 million ha Forested Land: 57 million ha

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Forest Carbon Initiative (FCI)

BC’s Forest Carbon targets

  • 2030: reduce GHGs from BC forests by 3 Mt/yr (federal)
  • 2050: reduce GHGs by 11 Mt/yr (provincially legislated)

FCI

  • enhance forest carbon sequestration
  • avoid forest carbon emissions
  • forest carbon management includes: rehabilitation,

reforestation, fertilization and utilization

  • research, innovation and funding for activities that would

not otherwise occur (e.g non-timber harvesting land base)

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Forests for Tomorrow Program

Since 2005:

  • Surveyed: 1.8M ha
  • Site prepared: 33,000 ha
  • Planted 113,000 ha with 157M

seedlings

  • 45% Class A seed
  • Spaced: 10,300 ha
  • Fertilized: 142,000 ha
  • Brushed: 8,800 ha
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Provincial Objectives : 1) Select seed for reforestation

  • 93 tree seed orchards
  • 750 - 2500kg of seed annually
  • 150 million select seed sown

2) Genetic gain

  • average 17%

3) Climate-based seed transfer 4) Use of pest-resistant seed 5) Genetic conservation

Seed for Reforestation

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