Corporate Documents

• 20 year scope but completed every 10 years.
• Overall forest management objectives and strategies.
• Public input crucial.

Forest Management Plan Overview

Al-Pac’s Forest Management Plan can be viewed here.

• 10 year scope.
• Detailed listing and mapping of stands selected for harvest to:
  • meet the Annual Allowable Cut (level of harvest that does not exceed the growth of the forest) and
  • provide for FMP objectives, such as old forest retention, watershed protection, and landscape and ecosystem management.
• Introduced with the FMP.

Al-Pac’s Spatial Harvest Sequence is available for public viewing on the Government of Alberta website. To access the Spatial Harvest Sequence by Forest Management Unit please click here and look under the Timber Supply Analysis tab on the government website.

• Five-year scope.
• Starts to detail harvest areas and main road construction.
• Reports on harvested volumes for a five-year period.
• Rolling plan updated annually.

Documents:

• GDP Forest Planning Overview
• GDP Document
• GDP Map

• One year scope.
• Defines harvesting and reforestation activities.
• Schedules harvest blocks and roads for the year.
• Introduced with the GDP.
• Created annually.
• Annual Operating Plan

• One to five year scope.
• Detailed harvest block design.
• Temporary road construction.
• Experienced field crews verify on the ground values, such as watershed protection, wildlife features and heritage sites. Input from trappers and communities incorporated.

To determine the location of the Planning Unit please reference the General Development Plan map in the forest planning drop down menu. Approximate locations can be determined by considering the Planning Unit Number. For instance PU084174 is in Township 84, Range 17, West of the 4th Meridian.

2021

• Al-Pac FMA Area Actual Harvest vs Quadrant Cut Control, 2016-2021

2020

• High Conservation Values in the Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Forest Management Agreement Area
• Status of Land Cover and Biodiversity in the Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Forest Management Agreement Area
• Environmental Monitoring within the Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Forest Management Agreement Area (2016-2020)

2019

• Annual Report, 2015-2020 Management & Monitoring Strategy for High Conservation Values
• Al-Pac Blog Calling Lake V05
• Al-Pac Blog Calling Lake V05 Pt. 2
• Al-Pac Blog Canada Warbler V11
• Al-Pac Blog Understory Protection V08
• Cultural Values Monitoring Report
• Fish Bearing Stream Assessments Monitoring
• Permanent Sampling Plots Monitoring Assessments
• Stream Crossing Assessments Monitoring

2018

• Landscape and Stand Level Structure Monitoring
• Protected Areas Gap Analysis – Phase 1 Report
• Protected Areas Gap Analysis – Phase 1 Peer Review
• Socio-Economic Indicator Report, Vignette

2016

• Forest Inventory Monitoring
• Forest Management Plan

2015

• Modelling Historical Landscape Patterns on the Al-Pac FMA Area, Andison 2015

2013

• Review of “Management and Monitoring Strategies for High Conservation Values in the Al-Pac Forest Management Agreement Area (2010-2015)”, Nishi 2013

We recognize the value of parks and special management areas to our 6.4 million-hectare Forest Management Agreement (FMA) area. Over the two decades, we have participated in provincial land-use planning activities that identified candidate protected areas. For example, during the Special Places 2000 process led by the Government of Alberta, we actively promoted several candidate protection areas, including the Leige River watershed. As well, under the provincial government’s Land-use Framework, the Lower Athabasca Regional Planning (LARP) process identified new park lands, including the Dillon River Wildland Park and the proposed expansion to Gipsy Gordon Park, both of which were removed from our FMA area with our support in 2012.

Collectively, these areas establish a conservation network that supports wildlife and recreation, as well as an opportunity for research and monitoring in these ecological benchmarks.

In 2017, we started the Conservation Areas Network Project in collaboration with Mistik Management Ltd., Ducks Unlimited Canada (Boreal Program) and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS, Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan Chapters). The objective of the project is to update our conservation area planning information and further our participation in conservation initiatives. As a first step, the project team has completed a peer-reviewed Protected Areas Gap Analysis within an identified study area.

Summary
Gap Analysis
Gap Analysis Peer Review