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Team Members: The project's team has an extensive background in modelling complex dynamic systems, including: mountain pine beetle, fire, forest succession, timber supply, land use and wildlife habitat supply. To email any team member use the comments page.

Don Morgan, R.P.Bio., is the project's leader and works as a Systems Ecologist with the Ministry of Forests and Range, Research Branch. His main research area focuses on developing collaborative frameworks that integrate data, information, spatio-temporal models, domain expertise and decision making. These frameworks are applied in support of planning processes and include the interaction of ecosystem management, timber harvesting, landscape disturbance and wildlife habitat. Recently, Don managed the North Coast LRMP decision support, served as a planning section head in MSRM's Skeena Region and lead MSRM's Skeena Region FRPA implementation team. He developed an information sharing partnership with First Nations, forestry companies and government and currently acts as its executive director. He is a director of the Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management.

Fred Hovey, M.Sc., is a Wildlife Habitat Analyst with the Ministry of Forests and Range, Research Branch and has worked on projects concerning the interaction of forestry and wildlife management since 1984. He has considerable experience in statistical analyses and in computer modelling, programming, and application development and has published several journal articles on his research. The main focus of his current work is to develop practical tools to aid managers in mitigating conflicts of resource extraction and land-use practices with the stewardship and conservation of wildlife. Fred is the project leader on another BCFSP project concerned with modelling grizzly bear habitat supply.

Robert McCann, M.Sc., is a consultant providing services to wildlife research and forestry planning issues. Robert's experience with wildlife research began as a Master's student in the Flathead drainage of the Cranbrook forest district in 1987. He subsequently was the project leader of the Kluane National Park Grizzly Bear Research Project from 1992 to 1997. For the last 7 years, Robert has been based in Mackenzie, BC where he has contributed to habitat supply modelling projects on grizzly bears, northern caribou, mountain goats, and fish. Robert has also aided the planning department of a local forest licensee in completion of forest development plans and in assessments of compliance with biodiversity guidelines and is well versed in simulation modelling and database programming.

Andrew Fall, Ph.D., is a consultant, and an adjunct professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. He is the primary architect of SELES (Spatially Explicit Landscape Event Simulator), a tool for building and running models of landscape dynamics. He has been involved in many projects across BC and Canada, including land-use planning (North Coast, Morice, Haida Gwaii), endangered species recovery (Spotted Owls), connectivity (Woodland Caribou, Manitoba), sustainable forest management (Labrador and Québec), and spatial timber supply analysis. He has worked extensively on modelling mountain pine beetle dynamics, and interactions with management, at landscape to provincial scales, with bark beetle researchers at the Canadian Forest Service and with the BC Forest Service.

Project Partners: Tembec Corp. and Canadian Forest Products, Ltd are significant forest products companies in the study area and will provide data, technical resources, and staff support to the project. The Nature Trust of British Columbia and the Nature Conservancy of Canada are also project partners. These two organizations represent major conservation groups and land-holders in the study area. They will also commit resources to attend workshops and meetings, review project reports, and share information and data. The Habitat Supply Research Network, a provincial initiative to share information on resource management issues, will be an important extension partner. The network hosts this web site and provides extension to a global audience.

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