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://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/risc.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Task Force
Michael Setterington (AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd.) reworked the previous version of this manual, based largely on statistical review comments by John Boulanger, to produce Version 2.0. The previous version, 1.1, was based on the background information and protocols presented in the unpublished government report, A Methodology for Surveying Woodpeckers in British Columbia, prepared for the Resources Inventory Committee by Christopher Steeger and Marlene Machmer of Pandion Ecological Research Ltd., with assistance and/or comments from Lisa Bate, Evelyn Bull, Andrew Carey, Catherine Raley, Mike Wisdom, Ted Miller, Walt Klenner, John Cooper, Claudia Ripley, Erica McClaren, Ann Eriksson and Tom Ethier.
This manual and its associated dataforms were edited to their final forms by James Quayle and Leah Westereng.