In British Columbia the large-scale application of Commercial Thinning (CT) became important over the last years both as a stand tending operation, and as a method to provide the fibre needed in the interior of the province to mitigate the shortage due to large scale disturbances such as bark beetle epidemics and fire..
The Operational Manual presents the experience of FPInnovations on application of CT, and presents methods for selection of CT candidate stands, for defining prescriptions and assessing the economic operability of harvest blocks, for supervising operations, and determining the productivity and cost of machines used.
The Manual can be used by forest planners, field supervisors and machine operators in different phases of CT implementation.