Water Stewardship Information Sources
| ID | 1258 |
|---|---|
| Citation | Mike Fenger and Associates. 2006. An Assessment of Mountain Pine Beetle Implications to the Kamloops Land and Resources Management Plan. Prepared for the Integrated Land Management Bureau. |
| Organization | FLNRO |
| URL | http://www.mikefengerandassociates.com/reports/docs/KLRMP-MPB-implications_Final-July19-06.pdf |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | The current mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic is affecting British Columbia's interior forests in an unprecedented way, and experts believe a significant part of the Kamloops Land and Resource Management Plan (KLRMP) area will be affected by dead pine stands. Some forest-related plan values (and related objectives and strategies) will be affected by these massive changes. Land managers' response to the epidemic will also have implications. For example, to capture economic losses caused by dead pine and wildfire, harvest levels were raised in the Kamloops Timber Supply area by 1.6 million cubic meters in 2004. This represents an increase of 62 percent over former harvest levels. The assessment described in this report was carried out to determine how the MPB epidemic might affect the ability of society, government, plan stakeholders and the public to achieve the KLRMP vision, goals, and objectives. Prior to completing an analysis of impacts, those objectives and strategies that are affected by forest condition were identified - see Appendix 4 - for a description of the linkage between KLRMP objectives and strategies and forest conditions. Once forest-sensitive objectives and strategies were defined, locations of current and predicted impacts were overlain with the various resource management zones to determine whether or not an impact could be expected. It is important to note that it is possible for KLRMP objectives and strategies to be met while risk to values remain, and project consultants provided interpretation regarding where this might happen. Predicted locations of MPB impacts within the plan area were defined using data from the Ministry of Forests and Range (Eng et al. 2005), that describe locations of susceptible (mature) pine as well as predict the spread of mountain pine beetle until the epidemic runs its course by 2020. mountain pine beetle, streamflow, flood, aquatic habitat, GIS, mapping |
| Information Type | report |
| Regional Watershed | Thompson |
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| Project status | complete |
| Contact Name | Mike Fenger |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |