Forest Management

 

Silviculture

Our knowledgeable team offers a variety of silviculture solutions that help clients meet their business needs including:

  • Five Year Silviculture Plans
  • Preparation of Site Plans
  • Stand Management Prescriptions
  • Planting quality inspections
  • Planting supervision
  • Danger tree assessment
  • Danger tree falling
  • Silviculture surveys (regeneration, survival, plantability, pre-stand tending, free growing)
  • Stand tending (thinning, pruning, fertilization)
  • Site preparation (planning, layout, supervision)
  • Growth and yield plots (establishment and monitoring)
  • Silviculture record keeping and data management (Genus)

 AMS has extensive experience in preparing Site Plans for clients operating in a wide variety of silviculture regimes and ecosystems.  With over 60 years of collective experience in the field and office preparation of silviculture solutions, we have developed an efficient and cost-effective process that can accommodate shortened timeframes.

Timber Management

In addition to numerous timber management contracts, AMS provides the timber management for four northern interior Forest Licenses with an AAC of over 400,000 m3.  Our capable staff is committed to quality services including:

  • Preliminary block and road reconnaissance
  • Timber cruising
  • Silviculture systems design
  • Cut block and road design layout
  • Logging plans
  • Forest health management
  • Road location and layout
  • Cruise compilation
  • Logging supervision
  • Cutting permit preparation and applications
  • Stumpage appraisals
  • Timber valuation
  • Location and valuation of private timber
  • Waste and residue surveys and compilations
  • Forest and Range Practices Act compliance

The ever-changing face of forest operations has been meet with a sense of challenge by our staff. Challenges of the landbase, stakeholders and government agencies have all been integrated into our cost-effective process. Team leaders work closely with clients to ensure their needs are met, that standards and procedures are adhered to and quality products are delivered.

Forest Health

All of our staff is experienced in all aspects of forest health surveys, beetle probing and layout. Staff are able to meet the demands of the client while producing products in a time efficient manner. While most of the province is now in the grip of the mountain pine beetle, our staff has been dealing with the problem since 1986. We are able to provide the following services:

  • Early detection (aerial & ground)
  • Walkthrough probes
  • Site and block layout
  • Fall & burn
  • Attack forecasting
  • Grade calling
  • Danger tree assessment
  • Danger tree falling
  • Timber analysis

Our experience in dealing with forest health issues has lead us to a cost effective process that enables us to meet the demands of the client while addressing non timber and non government values.