Forest Planning Services
Forest Management Planning
Forsite works with clients across Canada to develop forest management plans that meet regulatory requirements and clearly define a strategic and sustainable management direction for tenured forest areas.
Forsite provides strategic planning solutions and support for a wide range of specific problems:
- Silviculture investment analysis and strategy development
- Delineation of operating areas for volume-based tenures
- Biodiversity management strategies for old growth, patchsize, in-block retention, etc.
- Risk assessments and planning (fire, forest health, watersheds/hydrology)
Visual Resource Management
At Forsite, we care about scenic values and social responsibilities – often we are judged solely on how a project looks. We also understand the dynamics and complexity of delivering wood to the mill. That is why our team of visual resource management (VRM) experts can help you to incorporate visual landscape design principles into your operational and strategic planning. We take the time to understand your needs and offer support every step of the way.
Forsite’s ForView brings a revolution in precision, performance, and quality to the Visual Resource Management space. Replacing the long-outdated “industry standard” software used for 3D modeling in forestry application, ForView provides greater flexibility and certainty to clients in forestry and beyond. ForView can be used to simulate the visual impacts of energy projects, road and bridge construction, housing development projects, and more. Why demonstrate a new engineering project with models that are randomly populated when you can use real world data to illustrate something far closer to the true experience viewers will have upon project completion?
Climate Change Risk Assessments
The potential influence of climate change on forest and natural resource management is a pre-eminent challenge of our day. An effective response to these risks needs to involve 1) deciphering of climate predictions, 2) understanding potential impact on land and natural resources and 3) development of mitigation or adaptation strategies.
We offer a number of risk assessment services:
- Climate change risk assessment
- Climate change strategies for organizations
- Mitigation or adaptation strategies. Contact us to learn more about this work and past projects we’ve undertaken.
Climate Smart Forestry
The influence of climate change on forest and natural resource management is already being felt in changing weather and disturbance patterns and challenging sustainable forest management. Forsite can support forest and resource managers by applying a climate lens to your management and operations to reduce uncertainty and adapt to the challenges.
Climate Vulnerability Assessments
A path to reducing uncertainty and adaptation has been set out by the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM): Climate Vulnerability Assessments or (CVAs). Forsite has the training and experience to customize the CCFM’s process to client scope and priorities to achieve actionable outcomes and address new climate requirements in certification standards by addressing climate change challenges directly in existing sustainable forest management planning and practices.
ADAPT VS rEACT!
- Increase stockpile use to address volatile frozen operating seasons
- Upgrade culvert sizes to prevent washouts from increasing extreme weather events
- Include climate change as part of the annual EMS training
- Develop a business case for capital investment in strategic all-weather roads
- Compile local and community knowledge about past and current climate changes
Get in Touch
Randy Spyksma, RPF
SENIOR PLANNING FORESTER
assistant manager – BC rmt
Tel: 250-804-6305
aDDITIONAL cLIMATE sERVICES
Not only can Forsite help you successfully complete a CVA but we have the expertise, experience, and connections to complete any supplementary analyses to support adaptation and reduce climate uncertainty. Contact us to learn more.
- Summaries on the implications of climate change to targeted values
- Climate change risk analysis
- Carbon modeling and accounting
- Cumulative effects assessments
- Climate mapping
- Climate change seed transfer