Final Report from the Vegetation Inventory Working Group on Proposed New Inventory

Abstract

PreambleThe Resources Inventory Committee consists of representatives from various ministries andagencies of the Canadian and the British Columbia governments. First Nations peoples arerepresented in the Committee. RIC objectives are to develop a common set of standards andprocedures for the provincial resources inventories, as recommended by the Forest ResourcesCommission in its 1991 report The Future of Our Forests.Primary funding of the Resources Inventory Committee work, including the preparation of thisdocument by the Vegetation Inventory Working Group, is provided by the Canada - BritishColumbia Partnership Agreement on Forest Resources Development: FRDA II is a five year(1991-1996) $200 million dollar program cost-shared equally by the Federal and Provincial