Solutions

Creating 21st Century Nature & Climate-Based Solutions

Use Existing Forestry Techniques & Methods

As we are dealing with forests, a good starting point is the tried systems, methods, and techniques that are the basis of Silviculture Activities:

• Planting
• Fill Planting
• Brushing
• Site Rehabilitation (Site Prep & Planting Conifers)
• Juvenile Spacing
• Pruning
• Commercial Thinning
• Clearcutting
• Broadcast & Prescribed Burning (ended in a big way in 1990 after the smokey 1980s)
• Ecosystem Based Management
• Variable Retention Management

Modify Existing Forestry Techniques & Methods

In the 21st Century, the question is:

Can we modify existing and tried and true forestry systems?

• Planting with a focus on Deciduous Trees & Shrubs and the Conifers as necessary for biodiversity and the right species in the right location according to the BioGeoClimatic Ecosystem Classification System
• Fill Planting: Deciduous. Shrubs & Conifers
• Brushing: Barrel Girdling Deciduous in the radius of Conifer Crown, Deciduous Trees Between Conifers will be left for Nutrient Inputs to soil from leaves & nitrogen producing root nodules of Alder trees & biodiversity
• Site Rehabilitation (Site Prep & Planting Deciduous & Conifer trees & Shrubs)
• Juvenile Spacing to Reduce Tree Densities, Emulating Lower Densities of Old Growth Forests
• Pruning for Fire Smart Conifers – Removing Ladder Fuels: Lower Branches of Conifers with Crowns reaching to the Forest Floor
• Ecological Forest Thinning
• Prescribed Burning for Biological and Biodiversity outcomes, Fire Hazard Reduction
• Cultural Burning by First Nations
• Ecosystem Based Management
• Variable Retention Management

Create New Forestry Techniques & Methods

We'd be crazy if we just stopped at modifying existing Forestry systems, techniques, and methods! Through our Ecosystem Decoding and determining Ecosystem Health and Resiliency – and a host of on the ground problems, issues, and challenges – we will be forced and required to come up with new, inventive, perhaps unorthodox, outside-of-the-box solutions to complexities that we never might have observed before. So, as innovatively as we can, we will need to bring all of our skills, knowledge, and experience to the fore to create new and novel solutions to the problems we will encounter every day.

• Barrel Girdling
• Skip & Gap Ecological Thinning
• Landscape Level Restoration of Barren Seismic Lines: multiple vegetation visual screens (patch or strip) with access gaps for larger ungulates and wood henges that will allow large ungulates to jump over and stop Wolves from jump over also
• Planting consecutive rings of deciduous trees & shrubs as fire breaks
• Creating Assembled Nurse Logs (ANL) out of several smaller logs and perhaps covering with branches and wood chips, sawing slits in the logs for water to penetrate deeper into the logs
• Torching/bio-charring logs so that they will absorb more moisture and nutrients
• Placing Coarse Woody Debris (CWD) along hillside contour lines to absorb moisture and release it slowly throughout the year, especially in summer droughts
• Recruiting beavers to dam water for late summer and early fall water supply
• Building Beaver Dam Analogs (BDA)