Table 2. Description of the four conditions (current forest and three management scenarios) used in the scenario analysis. Scenario Keyword Description Current State of the Forest (year 2001) CURRENT Current state of the forest based on latest FRI. No Spatial Guidelines NOSPATIAL Basic silvicultural policies and practices are simulated along with a realistic transportation budget and operational rules (e.g., winter harvest areas), but no spatial harvest pattern objectives are defined. Harvest volume targets based on existing supply commitments. All Featured Values Guidelines ALLGUIDES NOSPATIAL silvicultural parameters, plus spatial pattern objectives based on guides for featured species (marten and caribou), the fish habitat guides, and non-spatial old-growth targets and harvest pattern from NDPEG. Harvest volume targets based on existing supply commitments. Natural Composition Targets NATURAL Landscape Mosaic Scenario. Compositional targets set to emulate natural disturbance patterns and composition. The first set of objectives was derived from an analysis of BFOLDS runs for the entire ecoregion 3W. Minimum amounts of mature forest pattern class were used in a quasi-spatial strategic forest management model (SFMM). The strategic solution for the ecoregion was to harvest the Lake Nipigon Forest more aggressively than the current available harvest area (AHA; while reducing harvest levels on other FMUs below current AHAs). We used the resulting composition of the SFMM solution on Lake Nipigon as the objectives. Harvest volume targets were allowed to fluctuate through time.