[CANUFNET] Woodland compensation/replacement

[Lepa, Chris]

It goes without saying that the primary objective of the City of
Winnipeg's Urban Forestry Branch and Naturalist Branch is to preserve
natural habitat and the urban forest, but unfortunately there are times
when we have no choice in the matter and the trees have to come out.  It
is during these instances that that the compensation formula is applied.


-----Original Message-----
From: canufnet-bounces at list.web.net
[mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Julian Dunster
Sent: March 11, 2009 8:12 PM
To: gpoisson at beaconenviro.com; Canadian Urban Forest Network
Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] Woodland compensation/replacement

What are your management  goals?  What do you want the natural areas to 
be? High forest, sparse trees  with patches of understorey? An exact 
mimic of the natural system now present? What stage of seral succession 
do you want?  You need to consider these questions first. Once you have 
some sense of what it is you wish to achieve over time, then you can 
establish management objectives that will lead towards the goals. 
Applying simple compensation numbers is seldom a wise approach, even if 
it does appeae the politicians and public. Define the goals - the rest 
will then be much simpler. Think long term - decades not a few years 
years. Allow for climate change impacts.

 

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Yours truly,
On Behalf of Dunster & Associates Environmental Consultants Ltd.




Dr. Julian A. Dunster, R.P.F., M.C.I.P., ISA Certified Arborist
    ASCA Registered Consulting Arborist # 378
    PNWISA Certified Tree Risk Assessor # 1



Geri Poisson wrote:
>
> I am working on developing policy for replacement/compensation of lost

> or impacted natural areas. 
>
> Does anyone have any experience or references on compensation ratios 
> for wooded areas.  I know it is a complicated and not very well 
> developed field, but I am trying to boil it down to something somewhat

> simplified, credible and defensible to be implemented at a municipal 
> level.
>
> Thanks
>
> Geri Poisson
> (705) 645-1050
>
>  
>
> Geri Poisson, B.A. Hon.
>
> Terrestrial Ecologist
>
> Beacon Environmental
>
> 29 Manitoba St., Suite 2
>
> Bracebridge, ON
>
> P1L 1S4
>