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Some of the existing activities and projects may have long-term strategies that identify priority work to be completed over a number of years. Projects should also meet the following government commitments:
- Eliminate the backlog NSR (pre 1987) by 2015
- Continue remediating priority fish passage crossings, as per ministerial response to Forest Practices Board Special Investigation Report 25
- Plant at least 20 million trees annually for the next 15 years on MPB and wildfire impacted lands
- Improving mid-term timber supplies through investments in incremental silviculture and tree improvement.
- Improve provincial forest inventories consistent with the 10 year inventory strategic plan
- Improve fish and wildlife inventories to ensure sustainable use of these resources
- Prevent new and reduce existing invasive plant impacts on forest and range resources to levels that are environmentally and economically acceptable
- Protect the British Columbia's international trade through the eradication of Gypsy Moth
- 2014/15-2016/17 Ministry Service Plan Performance Goals
- Data Quality Standard must align to meet Performance Measure 4 in the 2014/15 Ministry Service Plan
- Each investment category must consider how climate change has affected, or will affect, resource values and their associated goals, objectives and targets