Stuart River Park
The intent of the ecosystem restoration burns on the Stuart River sites has been to maintain what is a regionally rare early seral vegetation community on the upland south facing slopes. This fire maintained community provides valuable habitat for a variety of ungulates, birds and mammals.
This area of approximately 200 ha was prescribed burned in 2014. Added area outside the prescribed area was also burned due to escape. Much of it was in the Park, some of it on the working forest and into a plantation. The plantation will be replanted through approval of FRPA Section 108 government funds.
Reports
Albertson, O. 2009. Stuart River Prescribed Burn Monitoring Report. 35p
Ecofor Consulting Ltd. 2017. Stuart River Provincial Park 2016 Vegetation Monitoring Summary.
Maps
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Stuart River Park
2014
Pre-2014
Application Criteria
SERNbc uses three general criteria to select specific ecosystems for restoration activities, which include:
- Ecosystem vulnerability,
- Functional importance of the ecosystem, and
- Existing management mechanisms and/or programs.
Vulnerable, degraded and damaged ecosystems are a high priority for ER activities if they have high functional importance in terms of providing important ecological services. This functional importance or management priority increases when the ER needs of a subject ecosystem is not being addressed by existing programming.
Potential ER projects must align with SERNbc’s objectives as identified in our strategic plan. All ER projects undertaken by SERNbc need to be supported by data and analysis that describes their current state, desired future condition, management objectives, and treatment rationale.
