Pam Jorgenson

Due to the size of British Columbia and its relatively small population, much of the work forest professionals perform in BC is in remote areas — places the public might visit for a hunting or fishing trip, but not where the public actively recreates on a daily basis. …Mosaic manages Crown tenure in the northern part of Vancouver Island and Johnstone Strait, where the Forest and Range Practices Act and related provincial strategies like visual quality objectives (VQOs) and special management zones (SMZs) apply. …Our solution has been to create a GIS layer that identifies areas of public interest. We call it the social values layer. It is a spatial layer that is updated as interests and commitments change. For example, when we sign a new mountain bike trail management agreement, we add a polygon into the system so [it] is visible on maps, record tabular information, and local contacts.