Western Program Highlights Presentation to FERIC Wildland Fire

Western Program Highlights Presentation to FERIC Wildland Fire Detection Workshop June 6, 2006

Port Alberni Prince George Hinton Vancouver Prince Albert Kamloops Sault Ste. Marie Québec City Pointe Claire

Cost Value Environment

Economic feasibility of generating electricity from woody biomass

Maximizing fibre recovery from lowvolume, overmature stands

Reducing energy consumption & costs

Energy Use by Harvesting System

Transporting CTL logs from mountain pine beetle stands

Dual-commodity log / chip B-train

Extending the haul season on load-restricted pavements

Hauling safety on steep road grades Articulated rock trucks Log trucks

Truck. Safe Initiative To develop a comprehensive action plan to promote safe drivers, safe vehicles, safe resource roads, safe conduct on public highways, and vehicle safety awareness in the forest sector

Standing stem safe operating procedures

Wood damage associated with harvesting

Effects of ecosystembased forest management on harvesting costs

Ground-based harvesting on sensitive sites

Helicopter-logging evaluations

Operator’s guide to erosion and sediment control

Long reach booms

Harvesting MPB attacked stands

Shift-level evaluations of Interior cable yarding systems

Creation of guidelines to reduce planting injuries • 120 planters studied • 4 locations in BC and AB

Extension and implementation