B A Blackwell & Assoc Ltd - Forest Management

B. A. Blackwell & Associates Ltd. are Canadian forestry consultants dedicated to providing high quality, cost-efficient professional forestry and environmental management services. We have diverse experience in a range of forest management disciplines and are at the forefront of Canadian forestry and forestry practice in BC. We have diverse experience in a range of forest management disciplines. Services include: Forest Fire Management, Forest Engineering, Silviculture, Bioenergy, Forest Health, Pine Beetle, Danger Tree and Windthrow Management, Timber Valuation, Forest Practices Audits, Forestry Research. We have helped develop BC forest fire threat analysis and its application within various regions. Our Wildfire Risk Management System has been applied by local and regional governments, BC Parks, forest companies in BC and Alberta, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Alaska. Our silviculture services have an emphasis on stewardship, restoration ecology and sustainable forest management. We recognize the growing value of the bioenergy in BC and have assisted clients and stakeholders in various capacities. We have completed a comprehensive evaluation of BC Parks’ mountain pine beetle policy, and developed tree removal prescriptions for BC provincial parks. Our team has developed hazard and risk assessments and follow-up monitoring of mountain pine beetle, other bark beetles, defoliators and root disease in a variety of settings. Our foundation is forest ecology. Our strength is the application of this knowledge to natural resource management and ecological restoration. We have planned and implemented ecological restoration activities for degraded ecosystems and environments across BC. We provide services in Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping (TEM), forest ecological assessment and forest ecosystem based management applications to support forest and environmental management and stewardship.