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Abstract
Multi-scale Tools to Assess Spatial Feasibility of Intensive Forest Management
Track: Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management
Author(s): David Baldwin, Ajith Perera, Kevin Weaver
We assessed the spatial feasibility for intensifying forest management for a forest area more than seven million ha in Ontario Canada. All land use policies and regulations were translated into spatially explicit rules and applied as a hierarchical filter based on compiled forest inventory and values data. In addition, we modelled several landscape ecological processes to provide biological context to evaluate legally feasible areas. GIS-based decision support tools were developed to interactively analyze feasibility scenarios at both strategic (corporate, regional) and tactical (management-unit) levels. We describe data compilation challenges and development and use of the tools.
David Baldwin
Ontario Forest Research Institute
Forest Landscape Ecology Program
1235 Queen Street East
Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario P6A2E5
Canada
Phone: 705-946-2981
Fax: 705-946-2030
E-mail: david.baldwin@mnr.gov.on.ca
Ajith Perera
Ontario Forest Research Institute
Forest Landscape Ecology Program
1235 Queen Street East
Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario P6A2E5
Canada
Phone: 705-946-2981
Fax: 705-946-2030
E-mail: ajith.perera@mnr.gov.on.ca
Kevin Weaver
Ontario Forest Research Institute
Forest Landscape Ecology Program
1235 Queen Street East
Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario P6A2E5
Canada
Phone: 705-946-2981
Fax: 705-946-2030
E-mail: kevin.weaver@mnr.gov.on.ca