EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Forest Renewal BC and Ministry of Environment Habitat Branch have initiated a new FRBC

• Main Author: Rachel F. Holt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Prince Rupert; Queen Charlotte; Rupert; Smithers; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.583.1097; http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/bcdocs/353006/vancouver_terp.pdf

program – the Terrestrial Ecosystem Restoration Program (TERP). In order to provide a strong ecological foundation for this new program, a need for an assessment of Provincial strategic restoration priorities was determined. The purpose of a strategic assessment was threefold: a) to identify the most ‘degraded ’ ecosystems in each region, b) to identify causal factors of degradation where possible and c) to summarise these data to guide investments in the TERP. To achieve this goal, a series of six regional workshops were organised for October and November, 2000. The results of the workshops are available in six reports, one for each Forest Region and are referred to as Strategic Ecological Restoration Assessment (SERA) reports. This report contains the results of one workshop, held in Nanaimo (November 7, 2000), and discusses the Coastal Douglas Fir, Coastal Western Hemlock, Mountain Hemlock and Alpine Tundra zones on Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland and the Central Coast. Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) were discussed at the Smithers / Prince Rupert workshop. The zones that comprise a smaller portion of the region (ESSF, IDF, SBS, SBPS, MS) were not addressed, except for a transition zone comprising parts of the ESSF / CWH and IDF in the Squamish and Chilliwack Forest Districts which were included in this report