Renewable Resources
| RR01 | Forest Measurements: Design forest surveys and collect data for analysis and reporting using standard statistical principles.  Use air photos for navigation, identifying photo tie points, and recognizing key features.
Use forest mensuration equipment accurately and efficiently.
Describe common survey and sampling methods.
Describe the characteristics of a sample.
Describe basic statistical processes for analyzing the results of a sample.
Discuss the role measurements and related principles in the context of sustainable resource management.
Plan and carry out standard survey measurements and sampling procedures, such as: - Recognize statistical and practical significance of CV, SD, SE and confidence limits,
- Perform as a resource assistant,
- Use statistical methods and sampling procedures to conduct cruises and inventory surveys,
- Prepare maps from field data,
- Identify and apply appropriate estimation techniques in forest measurements,
- Determine tree and stand volumes and log volumes and values,
- Perform plot, point, line transect, and distance methods of sampling,
- Compute and interpret data from plot, point, line transect and distance methods of sampling,
- Use a structured approach to design a valid sampling plan.
| | RR02 | Forest Operations: Understand forest road construction and management, cut block planning, harvesting, and timber transportation. Recognize and describe different types of harvesting and transportation systems.
Recognize and identify the effects of forest management practices on ecosystem processes and components.
Identify potential environmental impacts of forest management activities.
Recognize and identify protection measures for natural drainage courses, wildlife habitats and preservation areas.
Recognize and apply the principles of sustainable development in the practice of forestry.
Demonstrate knowledge of proper road construction, maintenance and deactivation techniques.
Collect data for forest road and harvest permits.
Recommend and implement appropriate operational activities to meet planning objectives and strategies, such as: - Discuss issues related to the implementation of operational level field plans to meet defined strategies,
- Evaluate site data and recommend harvesting systems
- Discuss the design of appropriate transportation systems based on a selected harvesting system,
- Develop logging plans compatible with technical, environmental and economic constraints,
- Develop strategies for road maintenance and deactivation,
- Survey for and design appropriate drainage structures
- Recognize and recommend measures to protect stands from fire, insects, or disease, and to preserve other resource values,
- Assess the characteristics of soils and surficial materials that affect forest operations,
- Conduct watershed assessments, including field procedures, data collection, scoring and mapping,
- Use basic GPS tools such as buffer, clip and intersect to create layers and reports relevant to forestry operational activities,
- Prepare work schedules for different job operations and project phases using planning and scheduling software.
| | RR03 | Forest Protection: Prepare, implement and supervise assessment activities for hazard, fuel, pest, and disease. Recommend stand management practices to reduce risk from fire and losses due to damaging agents. Recognize, identify and report fuel management concerns and hazards.
Discuss the importance of insect and disease issues.
Recognize common stand level signs and symptoms and identify probable agents for the damages.
Under direction, prepare, implement and supervise hazard assessments, hazard analysis, and hazard abatement.
Specify and use appropriate fire fighting equipment.
Discuss the potential for fire management in relation to silviculture, wildlife habitat, ecosystem restoration, pest reduction, and to reduce hazard and manage risk.
Identify specific protection issues, and recommend or implement appropriate management strategies and activities, such as: - Identify specific pest organisms and damage agents to host species
- Follow procedures to conduct prescribed pest detection surveys
- Apply sampling methods to determine the incidence, intensity and extent of pest problems
- Identify and analyze the factors influencing fire behaviour characteristics
- Conduct fuel assessments, and make recommendations for management strategies
- Plan, direct, and construct fire control lines including fire crew organization, supervision, and safety on small fires.
| | RR04 | Silviculture: Collect, analyze and evaluate relevant data; prepare plans and reports for artificial and natural stand establishment. Describe methods of achieving regeneration.
Describe silvicultural systems.
Identify the main tree species in the region or area.
Compare range, habitat and phonological differences of species in the region or area.
Describe the relative commercial value of species in the region or area.
Discuss the characteristics and use of productivity classification or indexing systems such as site index.
Identify the stages and regulatory factors of plant growth and development.
Discuss stand tending prescriptions such as vegetation management, juvenile spacing, commercial thinning, pruning and fertilization.
Collect and evaluate site information, recommend actions, and implement basic silvicultural activities, such as: - Implement appropriate methods of achieving regeneration
- Evaluate the relative commercial value of each species in given stands
- Determine site indices and site class given appropriate age-height data and/or curves for dominant and co-dominant trees
- Specify appropriate planting methods for given sites and conditions
- Specify procedures to follow and consideration to take when preparing sites for planting
- Recognize seedling characteristics, initial growth rates, survival rates, tolerances and/or preferred growth conditions for use in developing regeneration plans
- Recommend tree species appropriate to given sites
- Complete all phases of a silviculture survey and make appropriate recommendations
- Recommend appropriate stand tending prescriptions including vegetation management, juvenile spacing, commercial thinning, pruning, and fertilization
- Determine the appropriate use of a silviculture system
- Collect data for pre-harvest silviculture planning
- Estimate site quality by assessing stand characteristics such as density and growth rate
- Estimate site productivity by assessing habitat characteristics such as precipitation and soil properties
- Identify types and symptoms of plant reactions to environmental stresses
| | RR05 | Resource Planning and Management: Interpret legislative directives that define resource values and evaluate existing land use plans. Evaluate plans for existing land use against legislative directives that define resource values on a specific site.
Describe and apply the six CCFM criteria for sustainable development: i. Conservation of biological diversity; ii. Maintenance and enhancement of forest ecosystem condition and productivity; iii. Conservation of soil and water resources; iv. Forest ecosystem contributions to global ecological cycles; v. Multiple benefits of forests to society; vi. Accepting society's responsibility for sustainable development.
Prepare, implement and supervise biodiversity and sustainable development plans.
Prepare, implement and supervise survey or monitoring activities to assess soil and water quality and quantity.
Implement stand management practices.
| | RR06 | Ecological Systems: Interpret legislated directives for land use priorities in sensitive areas and prescribe techniques to minimize human impacts. Interpret legislated directives for land use priorities in sensitive areas such as riparian ecosystems, sensitive soils and terrain, and critical wildlife habitat; prescribe techniques to minimize human impacts on these values.
Classify ecosystems and understand different levels of complexity of, and interrelationships between, organisms in ecosystems.
Assess vegetation succession status, forest stand structure and dynamics, and landscape features.
Prepare ecosystem restoration plans for impacts such as wild land fire, entomology and human use.
| | RR07 | Geographic Information Systems / Photogrammetry: Evaluate, query and interpret digital geospatial data using modern software and hardware tools. Interpret and evaluate geospatial data from a variety of traditional media types such as maps, plans, air photos and satellite images.
Interpret and evaluate digital geospatial data using modern software and hardware tools.
Perform queries on digital geospatial data based on resource management constraints.
Produce hard copy mapping products using a variety of software and hardware combinations.
Present analytical results in a public setting and explain the capability and limitations of geospatial analysis.
Demonstrate the ability to use data and tools in an ethical way.
Manage data and files systematically and in an organized hierarchical file structure.
| | RR08 | Wildlife Resources Management: Practice a systems approach to wild faunal resource management. Recommend wildlife management practices to conserve, protect and enhance wildlife resources and their habitats.
Recognize and identify common wildlife species and prescribe management strategies for each species or group.
Prepare surveys and supervise data collection and monitoring activities to assess wildlife and the effect of management strategies; compile and interpret data collected from these surveys.
Evaluate wildlife habitat for quality, carrying capacity, population dynamics, and application to wildlife populations.
| | RR09 | Fisheries / Aquatic Environment Management: Practice a systems approach to fisheries and aquatic environment management. Recommend management practices to conserve, protect and enhance fishery resources and their habitats.
Recognize and identify common fish species and prescribe management strategies for each species or group.
Prepare surveys and supervise data collection and monitoring activities to assess aquatic life and the effect of management strategies; compile and interpret data from these surveys.
Evaluate habitat quality and carrying capacity, population dynamics and applications to fisheries populations.
| | RR10 | Range Management: Apply the principles of Renewable Resource Management to forest lands. Identify plants important to range plant communities.
Collect data specific to and required for range management.
Evaluate the condition of range resources on the forest land base.
Develop a range use plan.
Describe the range tenure system for public land use.
| | RR11 | Park Management and Safety: Assess the impact of visitor management and impact strategies, and hazard abatement activities including appropriate search and rescue strategies. Interpret legislated directives for land use priorities in areas designated for park use.
Prepare surveys and supervise data collection and monitoring activities to assess the impact of visitor management and impact strategies; compile and interpret data from these surveys.
Prepare, implement and supervise hazard assessments, hazard analysis, and hazard abatement, including appropriate search and rescue strategies.
Organize hazard assessment surveys for issues, such as: wildlife encounters; weather severity; fuel conditions related to wildfire risk.
Recommend recreational land management practices in areas of site management, operational plans, visual management and visitor management.
Evaluate public notices and carry out evacuation plans.
Evaluate ecosystems and design public access facilities to minimize impact.
Evaluate impacts on parks and generate mitigation and restoration plans.
Recommend mitigation and restoration plans.
| | RR12 | Recreational Land Management: Plan and administer publicly accessible land for the purpose of recreation outside regions designated as provincial or national parks. Evaluate existing land use plans against legislative directives that define recreational forest values on a specific site.
Prepare surveys and supervise data collection and monitoring activities to assess the impact of visitor management strategies; compile and interpret data from these surveys.
Prepare, implement, and supervise hazard assessments, hazard analysis, and hazard abatement, such as examining potential avalanche hazards and search and rescue strategies.
Recommend recreational land management practices such as site management, operational plans, visual management, and visitor management.
Prepare, implement and supervise hazard assessment activities.
| | RR13 | Aboriginal Resource Management: Describe Aboriginal title and treaty history in Canada. Recognize and interpret culturally modified sites and landmarks. Describe Aboriginal title, treaty history and processes, sovereignty, and First Nations governance.
Collect and develop knowledge/data base of traditional values of aboriginal communities, and examine the social implications of the acquisition and use of data gathered during traditional land use studies.
Develop the Terms of Reference documents for traditional land use studies.
Recognize and interpret culturally modified sites and landmarks.
Define ethno-botany and describe traditional uses of regional flora and fauna.
Design and apply new methods of managing an ecosystem from an aboriginal perspective.
| | RR14 | Environmental Law: Interpret and evaluate Canadian Environmental Law and policy for defined jurisdictions. Interpret and evaluate existing Canadian environmental law and policy, which can include Forestry Law and Natural Resources Laws for defined jurisdictions.
Conduct enforcement of acts such as the Fisheries Act and authorizations connected with the act; conduct environmental assessments and reviews of projects and appeals, both through Judicial Review and through the Environmental Appeal Board.
Recognize relevant concepts of constitutional jurisdiction, administrative law, and the evolving role of First Nations.
Evaluate the interface between the respective visions for resource management held by industry, the public, and interest groups. This will normally include: - environmental standards and the framework within which local industry must operate;
- aboriginal claims and the effect they would have on industrial operations;
- the legal framework within which government weighs competing interests of wildlife, heritage, the environment, and industry;
- public challenges to tenure issued by the government, administrative enforcement, and appeal mechanisms under the various Resource Acts and Regulations.
| | RR15 | Forest Hydrology: Design, prepare and conduct measurements and sampling procedures to collect hydrological data for analysis and reporting. Apply knowledge of hydrologic and hydraulic principles.
Interpret terrain and groundwater features using air photos and maps.
Analyze stream channels and drainage structures documenting: stream hydrology, channel morphology, sediment transport capability, mass wasting processes, and impacts and methods to minimize wasting.
Classify stream sediment load and calculate movement rates and sediment discharge.
Analyze precipitation records to determine probable maximum precipitation events, frequency, and the relationships between frequency, intensity, and duration.
Determine watershed boundaries and characteristics, drainage patterns, catchments area boundaries, and natural flow. Calculate design peak flows and estimate peak flows by flood routing techniques. Delineate flood plains and recommend methods for flood damage mitigation.
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