Funding of the Resources Inventory Committee work, including the preparation of this document, is provided by the Corporate Resource Inventory Initiative (CRII) and by Forest Renewal BC (FRBC). Preliminary work of the Resources Inventory Committee was funded by the Canada-British Columbia Partnership Agreement of Forest Resource Development FRDA II.
The Resources Inventory Committee consists of representatives from various ministries and agencies of the Canadian and the British Columbia governments as well as from First Nations peoples. RIC objectives are to develop a common set of standards and procedures for the provincial resources inventories, as recommended by the Forest Resources Commission in its report "The Future of our Forests".
For further information about the Resources Inventory Committee and its various Task Forces, please access the Resources Inventory Committee Website at: http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/
Terrestrial Ecosystems Task Force
All decisions regarding protocols and standards are the responsibility of the Resources Inventory Committee. The following people made substantial contributions to various sections of this manual: Introduction - Rob Cannings, Andrew Harcombe, Leah Westereng; Vascular and Non-vascular Plants - George Douglas with comments by Joan Kerik, John Pinder-Moss, Richard Hebda; and Fungi - Brenda Callan with comments by Adolf Ceska. Helpful comments were submitted by Peter Newroth and Del Meidenger.
Background information and protocols presented in this version are partly based on the unpublished draft government report, Manual for Voucher Specimen Collection, Preparation, Identification and Storage Protocol for Inventories in British Columbia, prepared for the Resources Inventory Committee by M.G. Shepard and M. Lambert. Assistance for this draft manual was appreciated from the following people listed. Brenda Callan provided a synopsis of protocol for fungi voucher specimens that was most useful in the preparation of this report. Stan Orchard (herpetology) and Adolf Ceska (vascular plants) made valuable suggestions on the specimen preparation sections. Julie Oliveira gave us information on preserving marine algae. Rob Cannings and Trudy Chatwin provided direction on the preparation of this manual, and Phil Lambert was a constant source of helpful comments throughout the project.
This manual was edited to its final form by Leah Westereng.