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This last week has been our reading break, so everyone at Aurea has been doing minor research while taking some much deserved time off. After the break, we have been working on the visualization aspects of the woodlot, learning how to use a new program and modeling the visuals for the landscape. We have also been converting all of the raw stand data into a usable form and then importing it into TIPSY and VDYP, two stand simulators, to get our yield and growth curves in order to further our modelling process.

Next on our to-do list is to read a couple of different management plans in order to get a general feel for what research has to be conducted. We will also start doing some of the preliminary writing and start to formulate the final package for woodlot 1699. On top of the preparation we will be conducting,  we are going to finish inputting our data into TIPSY and VDYP and carry the projections into the FPS_Atlas system in order to model our different scenarios.

This week was a very productive week for Aurea Consulting. We had our first site visit to the Chartwell woodlot in Harrison Hot Springs. We had a chance to finally see what the woodlot looks like outside of a computer lab and were rewarded with some rain in the mean time.

Our objectives for the trip were as follows;

• To identify candidate areas for potential silvicultural treatment,
• To obtain reconnaissance data within potential WHA additional area,
• To Identify possible replacement area for WHA reductions to landbase,
• To identify harvest methods and transportation restrictions from future harvest sites, and
• To identify restrictions based on VQO polygons.

Overall we met all of our objectives, and had a great break from the classroom setting. More information on each of the trips objectives can be found on the connect website, listed under the “useful links” tab of the catergories drop down menu.

This coming week, we will be concentrating on completing an introduction for the management plan we are creating, and looking at getting the Visual Quality package together for an outside consultant to aid us in completing the assessment.