Year 2 - Landscape Strategies for MPB management: Some Stewardship Implications
Project Reference Number: 2007-15
Project Status: Complete
Led by: Doug Steventon, Wildlife Habitat Ecologist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers
Research Assistance: Dave Daust, Telkwa
Funded by: Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (M08-6006)
The interaction of the mountain pine-beetle epidemic, other natural disturbance, and varying timber harvest and salvaging strategies are being simulated for the Nadina Forest District. The potential responses of a variety of vertebrate species are also being simulated to explore the implications to meeting stewardship objectives. Results will be summarized/interpreted in a Bayesian decision modelling framework.