Acknowledgments

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 Barbara von Sacken, Robert Maxwell, Ted Lea, and Carmen Cadrin of the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, and Del Meidinger and Allen Banner of the BC Ministry of Forests. Corey Erwin, Jo-Anne Stacey, and Tracy Fleming assisted with final preparation of the document. Richard Sims of Geomatics International provided materials on map reliability, assessment, and quality assurance. Many discussions were held and comments received from Ministry of Forests Regional Ecologists Tom Braumandl, Ray CoupÈ, Craig DeLong, Dennis Lloyd, Fred Nuszdorfer, and Ordell Steen. Thanks also go to participants (consultants, industry, and provincial government personnel) at a November 1996 workshop in Victoria, BC, who aided in finalizing the standards. As well, many practitioners were originally consulted as to what attributes were required for developing interpretations from ecosystem maps.

Appreciation goes to Georgina Montgomery for editing the text, TM Communications Inc. and Debbie Webb for graphics and desktop publishing, and to Louise Gronmyr, Christina Stewart, Claudia Jones and Jean Stringer for final edit changes. Appreciation also goes to Rick Pawlas and Sean LeRoy for their graphic and desktop publishing work on the original review draft.

This report has borrowed extensively from previous mapping methodology papers that are cited in the text. We would like to acknowledge the technical contributions of Bob Mitchell, Bob Green, Graeme Hope, Karel Klinka, Dennis Demarchi, Ted Lea, Mike Fenger, and Andrew Harcombe who documented previous methods for ecosystem mapping in British Columbia. We also acknowledge the co-operation and leadership of RIC co-chairs, Dave Gilbert, Mike Bonnor, and Jim Mattison, and the Terrestrial Ecosystems Task Force co-chairs, Imre Spandli, Bruce Pendergast, and A.Y. Omule. The Ecosystems Working Group consists of the following individuals: Allen Banner, Carmen Cadrin, Dave Campbell, David Kilshaw, Ted Lea, Herb Luttmerding, Barry McDougall, Shirley Mah, Robert Maxwell, Del Meidinger, and Barbara von Sacken.

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