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Visual Resource Management Publications
British Columbia has magnificent forest and mountain landscapes. The protection and management of Visual Quality is legislated in the Province. Here are important links covering Visual Resource Management of Forest Resources from the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations, and Rural Development (FLNRORD):
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Essential Documentation and Guidance from the Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD). Use the link covering the previous sentence to find these useful documents:
- Visual Landscape Inventory - Procedures and Standards Manual 1997
- Visual Impact Assessment Guidebook
- Visual Landscape Design Training Manual
- Forest Landscape Handbook, BC Ministry of Forests, 1981 - The original BC Handbook
- Forest Landscape Management - Chapter 11, Recreation Manual BC
- Poster: A guide to Visual Quality Objectives (PDF)
- RDI - Visual Resource Management Terms in British Columbia Canada
- Looking Beyond the Trees - Visual Stewardship of the working forest - visual resources conference compendium - Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, April 17 to 19, 2001
Public Preferences
A First Look at the Visual Quality of Forest Roadside Management (PDF, 5.6MB)
Energy
- Wind Energy Developments on Forested Landscapes - Visual Quality: the Public Response. Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations 2015. (PDF, 5.3MB)
Other Research and Visual Resource Management Publications
- Clearcutting and Visual Quality – A Public Perception Study (PDF, 1.7MB)
- Economic Benefits of Managing Forestry and Tourism at Nimmo Bay (PDF, 2.2MB)
- Predicting the Visual Impacts of Retention Cutting (PDF, 1.1MB)
- The Public Response to Harvest Practices in B.C. at the Landscape and Stand Level (PDF, 3.2MB)
- Visual Impacts of Partial Cutting: Summary Report (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Visually Effective Green-up in B.C. – A Public Perception Study (PDF, 3.7MB)
- Public Perception of Mountain Pine Beetle Attack: final report (PDF, 11MB)
- Other Locales
KB Fairhurst was given the responsibility for developing an initial version of the Forest Landscape Management Strategies for Alberta when he was with Alberta Energy and Natural Resources in 1985. The Strategies document was beautifully completed by Terry Turner and published in 1988. Archive.org (Wayback Machine) has a digital version:https://archive.org/details/forestlandscapem00albe_0/mode/2up