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 contact:
The Executive Secretariat
Resources Inventory Committee
840 Cormorant Street
Victoria, BC V8W 2R1
Tel: (250) 920-0661
Fax: (250) 384-1841
http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/
Terrestrial Ecosystem Task Force
This report was developed by the Ecosystems Working Group, part of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Task Force under the Resources Inventory Committee (RIC). Substantial contributions for this report have been provided by Corey Erwin, Ted Lea, Carla Burnell and Samantha Flynn.
This report has also borrowed extensively from previous mapping methodology papers that are cited in the text. We would like to acknowledge the technical contributions of W.R. Mitchell, R.N. Green, G. Hope, K. Klinka, D. Demarchi, E.C. Lea, M.A. Fenger, and A.P. Harcombe who developed previous methodologies of ecosystem mapping for British Columbia. We would also like to acknowledge the following for providing valuable assistance as this document was written, and for contributing their ideas and comments for an improved Broad Ecosystem Classification. Much appreciation goes to D. Demarchi, L. Lacelle, C. Cadrin, B. von Sacken, S. Moss, L. Bonner, D. Clark and B. Maxwell of the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks; and to the Regional Ecologists, D. Meidinger and W. MacKenzie of the Ministry of Forests. Thanks also goes to S. Boon, J. Stanton and Debbie Webb whose time and effort were greatly appreciated.