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 Ecosystem Task Force
All decisions regarding protocols and standards are the responsibility of the Resources Inventory Committee. The background information and protocols presented in this document are based on the unpublished draft manual, Preliminary Inventory Manual for Waterfowl and Allied Species in British Columbia, by Barbara A. Beasley, with information and comments provided by I. Goudie, A. Breault, R. McKelvey, D. Smith, S. Boyd, K. Fry, E. Hennan, L. Thomas, S. Wilson, M. Gebauer, M. Higgs. This draft was then revised by Ken R. Summers with some editing done by Dr. John Smith. Initial drafts of the data forms were made by Brandy Small.
This manual and its associated dataforms were edited to their final versions by Leah Westereng and James Quayle.