Natural Disturbance Research and Natural Disturbance Research and Forest Management Forest Management An Alberta Government Perspective An Alberta Government Perspective Sustainable Resource Development John Stadt John Stadt – – Provincial Forest Ecologist Provincial Forest Ecologist
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Natural Disturbance Research and Natural Disturbance Research and Forest ManagementForest Management
An Alberta Government PerspectiveAn Alberta Government Perspective
Sustainable Resource Development
John Stadt John Stadt –– Provincial Forest EcologistProvincial Forest Ecologist
Desired Future FOREST
OPERATIONAL PLANNING &
MANAGEMENTForest Management
Plans
POLICY & STRATEGIC PLANNING
SCIENCE
MONITORING
Land-Use Framework
Desired Future FOREST
POLICY & STRATEGIC PLANNING
SCIENCE
MONITORING
Set objectives
Implementation
Implementation Monitoring
Assess /Re-evaluate
OPERATIONAL PLANNING &
MANAGEMENT
Conservation of BiodiversityCCFM Criterion
SpeciesDiversity
EcosystemDiversity
GeneticDiversity
ProtectedAreasCCFM Elements
Water crossings
Sensitive Sites
Stand Structure-retention-downed woody
material
Seral Stage / Cover Types
Fragmentation-patch size
- interior forest
Access
Uncommon plant communities
Riparian areas
Burned/Windthrow habitats
Objectives
LandscapeScale Diversity
StandScale Diversity
Values
AlbertaAlbertaForest ManagementForest ManagementPlanning StandardPlanning Standard
Conservation of BiodiversityCCFM Criterion
SpeciesDiversity
EcosystemDiversity
GeneticDiversity
ProtectedAreasCCFM Elements
Water crossings
Sensitive Sites
Stand Structure-retention-downed woody
material
Seral Stage / Cover Types
Fragmentation-patch size
- interior forest
Access
Uncommon plant communities
Riparian areas
Burned/Windthrow habitats
Objectives
LandscapeScale Diversity
StandScale Diversity
Values
AlbertaAlbertaForest ManagementForest ManagementPlanning StandardPlanning Standard
Conservation of BiodiversityCCFM Criterion
SpeciesDiversity
EcosystemDiversity
GeneticDiversity
ProtectedAreasCCFM Elements
Water crossings
Sensitive Sites
Stand Structure-retention-downed woody
material
Seral Stage / Cover Types
Fragmentation-patch size
- interior forest
Access
Uncommon plant communities
Riparian areas
Burned/Windthrow habitats
Objectives
LandscapeScale Diversity
StandScale Diversity
Values
AlbertaAlbertaForest ManagementForest ManagementPlanning StandardPlanning Standard
Objective: Retain full range of cover types and seral stages.
Indicator: Area of old, mature, and young forest in each subunit by cover class
Target: Targets for each seral stage to be set for both the gross and net landbase
Seral StagesSeral Stages
Stand Age
Per
cent
Are
aAge distribution of forests
80 and 160 year fire cycles
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
10 50 90 130 170 210 250 290
80 year160 year
Fire cycle
160 yr 80 yr
>100 yrs = 38% 28%
>200 yrs = 13% 6%
>300 yrs = 15% 2%
• Fire regime analysis– Fire cycle– Disturbance size distribution