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This document serves as a practical guide for forest managers in British Columbia's Coast Forest Region. Its primary purpose is to help conserve and maintain suitable winter habitat for Roosevelt elk while simultaneously ensuring successful conifer regeneration. This document details crucial aspects like habitat features, risks associated with forestry activities such as road building and timber harvesting, and various silvicultural strategies to mitigate elk browse damage to young trees. By summarizing extensive research and expert discussions, this document provides foresters with the necessary information to balance wildlife conservation with timber production goals.

This document details the Strathcona Elk Winter Range Enhancement Project, a multi-year initiative in British Columbia focused on improving habitat for Roosevelt elk. The project's main goals were to increase forage production, create better cover, and ultimately support a healthier elk population through various habitat enhancement trials, including seeding, pruning, and clearing. The report summarizes the methodology, results, and recommendations from the 2004 efforts, highlighting observations on forage growth, browse availability, and elk usage patterns, alongside financial expenditures and the project's long-term objectives for elk conservation within the Strathcona Provincial Park and surrounding valleys.

This document summarizes the Strathcona Elk Winter Range Restoration Project in British Columbia, outlining habitat restoration efforts from 2002 to 2003. The project focused on increasing forage production and improving cover attributes for elk through activities like planting, pruning, and scarification at six sites. Beyond restoration, a significant component involved monitoring techniques to assess project success and document its impact on Roosevelt elk populations, alongside efforts to increase public awareness about elk habitat needs.

This docuemnt details a case study on harvesting options in a highly constrained forest stand within the Rocky Mountain Trench, focusing on an experimental forest management pilot project. The primary goal was to evaluate different harvesting methods such as conventional, single tree, and group selection on soil disturbance and armillaria root disease. The study describes the site's characteristics, experimental design, and the specific silvicultural prescriptions implemented to achieve objectives like maintaining water levels and reducing disease susceptibility. It further outlines the harvesting operations conducted and presents preliminary results regarding the impact of each method on stand health and soil integrity.