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Fish Forestry Interaction Program Management
Model - FFIP-MM
BC Ministry of Forests
The BC Ministry of Forests engaged ESSA to help
synthesize over a decade of research into the effects of logging
on fish habitat in coastal watersheds of British Columbia in the
form of an integrated decision support tool. ESSA held several workshops,
technical meetings and expert elicitation exercises with more than
20 scientists participating from government, universities and industry
having expertise in forest harvesting, forest ecology, soil erosion,
hydrology, stream channel geomorphology, and fisheries biology.
The outcome of these meetings was a detailed conceptual design for
an overall management tool consisting of three submodels and the
interactions amongst them: 1) a forest/upslope submodel; 2) a channel
submodel; and 3) a fish submodel. The resulting simulation model,
FFIP-MM, integrates the complex chain of processes that links upslope
logging activities with distant changes in fish habitat. The model
provides a powerful means of exploring these connections through
space and time in a manner which accounts for uncertainty and probabilistic
events. The results of the preliminary application of FFIP-MM to
Carnation Creek approximated many of the observed trends in large
woody debris and sediment volumes. Next steps include a formal evaluation
strategy to refine the expert rules, model parameters and functional
relationships.
FFIP-MM helps inform forest managers about the
impacts of alternative timber extraction plans to enable better
decisions surrounding sustainable forest ecosystem management.
FFIP Publications and Reports:
 Alexander, C.A.D.,
T.M. Webb and D.R. Marmorek. 1998. The
Fish Forestry Interaction Project - Management Model (FFIP-MM):
Preliminary Model Description and an Application to Carnation Creek,
British Columbia. Prepared by ESSA Technologies Ltd., Vancouver,
BC, and Lookfar Solutions, Tofino, BC. 50 pp.
[PDF- 906 kb]
ESSA Technologies
Ltd. 1998. FFIP-MM
- Fish Forestry Interaction Program Management Model: Draft User's
Guide. Prepared for BC Ministry of Forests by ESSA Technologies
Ltd., Vancouver, BC, 56 pp.
[PDF- 561 kb]
ESSA Technologies
Ltd. n.d. The
Fish Forestry Interaction Project Management Model (FFIP-MM) - Brochure.
6 pp.
[PDF - 275 kb]
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