Ecosystem-based management is centred on an ecological approach that considers a wide range of resources and values to assure productive, healthy ecosystems. The Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) is conducting a series of case studies in coastal British Columbia of applications of new forestry principles that incorporate ecosystem-based management in a variety of site and stand conditions, retention levels, and harvesting systems. This report is the third in the series, and discusses the clearcut and dispersed retention compartments of a cutblock in a second-growth stand on northern Vancouver Island.