Keifer Ecological Services

• Kinbasket Reservoir Revegetation Program
• Arrow Lakes Reservoir Revegetation Program
• Silviculture, Wildfire and Forest Stand Effects on Huckleberries
• Spalding’s Campion Inventory and Habitat Assessment
• MOE Elder Creek Prescribed Burn
• Spatial and Quality Attributes of Culturally Important Plants
• Rare Plant Propagation and Restoration, Waneta Expansion Project
• Whitebark and Limber Pine Restoration in BC
• Impact of Accelerated Timber Harvesting on NTFPs
• Aberfeldie Channel and Revegetation Program
• Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on NTFRs
• Revegetation of Disturbed Wetlands in Westpath Expansion Area
• Managing Saskatoon and other Traditionally Important Plants
• Invasive Plant Inventories at Provincial Parks
• Profile of NTFRs in the Cascade Forest District
• Invasive Species Mitigation Practices after Forest Management Activities
• Ethnobotanical Inventory, Invermere
• Reconnaissance Level Wetland Testing on TaTa/Skookumchuck Range
• Revegetation Monitoring - Kootenay 230 kV System Transmission Line
• Cultural Plants of the Creston Wetlands
• Morels in the East Kootenay, BC

Invasive Species Mitigation Practices after Forest Management Activities

It is widely recognized that forestry related activities, such as road construction, logging, and fuels treatments (including thinning and prescribed burning), have the potential to create new habitat for invasive species.  Currently within BC’s Interior, noxious weeds are more prevalent in lower elevations within the Southern areas including the Okanagan, Kootenays, Boundary and Thompson regions (Forest Practices Board 2006).  Wild fire risk is high in many areas in the Kootenays and Southern Interior, including the wildland urban interface, hence there are many fuels reduction projects.  Similarly the mountain pine beetle epidemic is resulting in large areas of land being harvested.  As these projects and activities increase, there is a need for planners to be aware of best practices to mitigate invasive species as part of fuels treatment follow up and monitoring.