Resource Planning & Analysis
at CABIN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LTD.
CABIN seeks to deliver innovative and effective solutions to the most challenging resource management decisions. We are ambitious, experienced, and thrive on a challenge!
Our professional team provides strong leadership, creative approaches, and sophisticated technologies to find solutions to complex problems.
Cabin can bridge the technical and strategic gaps between landscape-level planning and real-world outcomes for multiple values on the landscape: timber, wildlife, carbon, land use, First Nations Rights, and provincial objectives.
ENHANCED FOREST RESOURCE INVENTORY
Enhanced Forest Resource Inventory utilizes several resources to meet unique needs in the natural resource sector
Applied data science, remote sensing and spatial-statistical methods offer numerous untapped benefits in a data-rich domain such as natural resource management. Enhanced Forest Resource Inventories can help managers meet increasingly stringent and exacting standards and objectives. Inventory services include: - Individual stem detection and aggregation - Automated stand and "micro-stand" delineation - Stand and stock table creation - Geodatabase design - Custom LiDAR processing and machine learning to identify non-timber values
“TOTAL RESOURCE” STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING
Total Resource planning facilitates decisions that meet current and future management goals
With numerous values and constraints at play, spatially explicit planning requires a rigorous framework that effectively addresses both the current legislative regime and future management scenarios. Using LiDAR, we can ensure that strategic and tactical decisions are operationally feasible. When sensitive hydrologic values such as Community Watersheds are present, we use Digital Elevation Models to model the effects of resource development on landscape hydrology.
OPERABILITY ANALYSIS
Inoperable or challenging terrain identified during the planning phase makes timber development more efficient
Inoperable terrain and challenging timber types can be a major hang-up for otherwise viable operational plans. We efficiently identify these constraints ahead of time using digital models of terrain and the forest canopy derived from LiDAR – whether it’s for rocky conventional layout, detailed partial harvest prescriptions or deflection analysis for a high-lead cable system.
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM MAPPING
Terrestrial Ecosystem mapping is key to high-value conservation outcomes
Cabin leverages experience in spatial analysis, geodatabases and forest ecology to support decision-making that leads to high-value outcomes in the conservation and stewardship of forest ecosystems. Ecosystem mapping can help identify areas that are important for mitigating the effects of climate change, such as areas with high carbon sequestration potential or areas that provide habitat for species that are vulnerable. These maps can be used to visually demonstrate the complex relationships between different species and the environment, and help people understand the importance of protecting natural areas in a changing world.
VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Using simulations to manage for visual impact in complex landscapes is important during total resource planning.
With operational experience on visually sensitive landscapes, Cabin can develop solutions that meet or exceed visual quality objectives and provide high-quality visual simulations of changes to forest canopy cover across the landscape. This allows stakeholders and decision-makers to view the landform pre and post-harvest and make appropriate legal and visual decisions.
WILDLIFE HABITAT ANALYSIS
Values-driven planning requires innovative analyses that result in real-world outcomes.
Wildlife habitat analysis can help monitor changes in biodiversity over time, and identify areas where biodiversity is at risk. Cabin provides detailed mapping to meet habitat management goals from the site-level to landscape scales. We see these goals as an opportunity to incorporate diverse values into resource planning.
WHERE WE WORK
Cabin works on projects across British Columbia
Summary
Resource Planning incorporates a range of different values and happens at different scales and project scopes. These services enable accurate and efficient decision-making for foresters and land managers. • Total Resource Planning: strategic or tactical, identify land values, quantify landbase • LiDAR-Based Operational Planning: terrain & canopy cover classification, sensitive site identification, cut block & road design • Enhanced Forest Resource Inventory: automated stand delineation, stock table creation, inputs for Total Resource/Forest Estate/Silviculture planning/modelling/prescriptions • Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping, Wildlife Habitat Modelling, Forest Fuel Typing, Visual Impact Assessments & more...
Cabin excels in choosing the right analytical tools for our client's complex management scenarios. In addition to Forestry Professionals, we have Registered Professional Biologists and Wildfire Specialists on staff to provide a multidisciplinary approach to planning. As a values-driven company, we aim to work closely with our clients to develop decision support tools that serve them now and in the future.
Contact us today to learn more about our services planning@cabinworks.ca
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