Forest Management Planning, March 31, 1963 



The revision of management plans for Crown units has followed closely the 

 re-inventory of Crown lands, now in progress. 



Within 18 months of the completion of the re-inventory of a management 

 unit the revised management plan is prepared by the district staff. The plan is 

 drawn for a 20-year period and will be revised at 20-year intervals thereafter, on 

 the basis of new inventories at that time and on experience gained in the past 

 periods. The basic planning considers management objectives and the means of 

 their attainment over a period of a hundred years, more or less. This planning is 

 based on such considerations as the arrangement of species and age-classes on the 

 productive forest land, a permanent road network, division of the forest into 

 accessible compartments, the rotations of the working groups, et cetera. This 

 planning constitutes a framework into which ten-year operating plans are fitted as 

 time passes. The operating plans show, in detail, the stands to be cut, regenerated, 

 and tended, the roads to be built, and the improvements to be made. 



This type of planning is standard for Crown management units and Agree- 

 ment Forests for which plans are prepared by Department staff. The main 

 essentials of planning are contained in the Manual of Management Plan Require- 

 ments, May 1962, as a guide for the staff of the companies in the preparation of 

 management plans for Company management units. 



There are 203 management units in the Province, each operating under a plan 

 of its own. This number is subject to change due to abandonment and acquisition 

 of licences, and to division and consolidation of management units. 



MANAGEMENT PLANS 



1. Crown Management Units — plans prepared by Department staff. There are 

 79 management units with a total area of 85,216 square miles and with 78 plans 

 in force, as follows: 



61 — initial management plans; 

 17 — plans in preparation; 



1 — plan not yet due. 



2. Company Management Units — plans prepared by licensees. Seventy-seven 

 management units are on record, with 97,342 square miles, as follows: 



67 — units with approved management plans; 

 8 — plans in preparation; 



2 — plans not yet due. 



3. Agreement Forests — Plans prepared by Department staff. There are 42 

 management units with an approximate area of 244 square miles. Inventory for 

 12 management units has been completed and turned over to the Districts, where 

 the work has commenced on planning. The division of these forests into 

 compartments has been completed. 



4. Nursery Forests — plans prepared by Department staff. Management plans 

 for these five small management units, adjacent to the Departmental tree nurseries, 

 will be prepared on completion of inventory programme. 



Other work during the fiscal year was as follows: 



1. Co-operation in programming the Timber Certificate Course, and lecturing 



on management procedures. 



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