C8 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 9, 1990

Meet the PHSP ©

Before a single tree is touched on a site proposed for
logging, the logging company must have a PHSP. It’s not
a new kind of retirement investment scheme, it’s a Pre-
Harvest Silviculture Plan.

The Ministry of Forests defines a PHSP as "a site-spec-
ific, integrated forest management plan that developed
prior to logging".

The objective of a PHSP is to produce a planning docu-
ment in advance of logging which:
defines and incorporates product goals
describes cost-effective harvesting and silviculture

regimes

*identifies the values and constraints associated with non-

timber resources
*provides for the maintenance of site productivity.

The requirement for PHSP’s has numerous benefits. The
prescriptions are integrated, reducing resource conflict
and rehabilitation costs. For example, the cost of chang-
ing a logging plan to accommodate fisheries values is
considerably lower than experiencing a delay in logging
or outright rejection of a cutting permit application.

Treatments under PHSP’s are more effective because
they allow more lead time, better scheduling and greater
control of logging impacts. Planning foresight can allow
lead time to request, for example, planting stock or a
pesticide permits; or, the cost of eradicating mistletoe in a
second growth crop could be reduced by modifying log-
ging boundaries to remove adjacent old growth infection
sources. With a PHSP, the company may decide to com-
plete harvesting in a single season on brush-prone sites to
minimize brush development that could affect the new
crop.

Companies can also do better budgeting and planning:
with a PHSP because their cost estimates are based on
actual area, exact seedling requirements and estab-
lished relationships between the site types and treatment
results.

As our knowledge of forestry becomes more refined and
sophisticated, so does our approach to the industrial use
of forests. And the more answers we get, the more ques-
tions arise.

As wood processing technology becomes more exact and milling

capacity increases, the ability of companies to process timber is

rapidly outrunning the supply of logs under 8.C.’s sustained yleld ”

system. The availability of trees — and what Is done with them —
_will.be a prominent issue in the 1990’ 8.

Those who value forests.tend to be most active in their stewardship. Last year at the start of
National Forest Week the 50 millionth tree to be planted | in the Kalum Forest District was put in the
ground near this site at Legate Creek.

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. Terrace, B.C. —

3011 Blakeburn Street |
Fax: 635-4161 |

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| Silviculture Consultants

Providing services to industry,
government and private land owners in
the areas of:

Silviculture project planning and management
‘Ecological classification and interpretation —
‘Forest surveys 7

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Serving Northwest B.C. since 1983
Doug Davies
Terrace, B.C.

Telephone: 635-9540 Fax:635-6592