2024 Minister’s Award – Wayne Klein
Wayne Klein, W0478 and W1623, of Rock Creek, BC is the 2024 recipient of the Minister’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Woodlot Management. Klein was presented with a signed…
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Woodland Almanac: Fall 2024
The Joy of Woodlotting Everything conference! Find photos, articles and reflections from the 2024 Woodlots BC Conference and AGM, held in Quesnel, October 3-5, 2024 Download: Almanac Fall 2024 In…
BC Political Parties Respond to Natural Resource Questions
In the last provincial election, approximately 60% of the eligible voters participated. As part of supporting woodlotters, we at Woodlots BC have been working with like minded people to understand how…
Executive Director’s Report | Fall 2024
Welcome to the Executive Director’s Report for Fall 2024 In this issue: Strategic Plan Details Conference Lookback Organizational Changes Read the Report
Annual Report 2023/2024
Curious what Woodlots BC was up to in 2023-2024? Check out the annual report presented at the 2024 Woodlots BC Conference held in Quesnel, BC from October 3-5, 2024. You’ll…
Executive Director’s Report | August 2024
Welcome to the Executive Director’s Report for August 2024. In this issue: Governance and Board Members Operational Update Regional Reports Read the Report
Woodland Almanac: Summer 2024
Partners in Wildfire Suppression SOWA recently leaned on local expertise to receive S100 training. Read more from Don Whyte as he talks about meeting with BCWS and setting up the…
Executive Director’s Report | Summer 2024
Welcome to the Executive Director’s overview for Summer 2024. In this report: Weather and Political Forecast Board Updates Operational Projects Keeping Our Tenure Alive Regional Reports: North, South, Coast Summer…
Commercial thinning draws a crowd
By Melissa Steidle, Northern Woodlot Representative Woodstock for Forestry was what one person said about the recent commercial thinning tour in Prince George on July 2 and 3. The line of…
Safer routes with resilient forests
By Melissa Steidle, Northern Woodlot Representative McLeod Lake Mackenzie Community Forest (MLMCF) has been working towards Climate Resiliency within areas of the Community Forest that are near the highway corridor…
Executive Director’s Report | Spring 2024
Welcome to the Executive Director’s report for activities in Spring 2024. In this report: Annual Spring Meeting Provincial Forestry Forum Regional Reports: North, South, Coast Improving Our Future Executive’s Director…
Time to Grow: Reece Allingham
By Sarah Sutton It’s in Reece Allingham’s nature to tend trees. From his early years growing up on an orchard in Lake Country to university days in the forestry program…
Woodland Almanac: Spring 2024
Time to Grow: Managing for the Long Term Read about Reece Allingham’s experience as a young woodlot licensee, from wildfires to managing for biodiversity and wildlife. Being a woodlot…
Woodlots BC Spring Meeting
Woodlots BC hosted its annual Spring Meeting on Thursday, May 23 at 9am. It included updates from woodlot associations, and then informative presentations about the Old Growth Action Plan (by…
Executive Director’s Report | Winter 2024
Welcome to the inaugural Executive Director’s report for activities during January and February 2024. In this report: Overview of Governance and Funding Conferences and Meetings COFI Survey Bill 28 and…
Woodland Almanac: Winter 2024
Looking Back: 2023 Conference and AGM Sarah Sutton, Communications Coordinator, reflects on her first-ever woodlot conference experience and shares some highlights from the event held October 26-28, 2023 in Aq’am,…
Scholarship winner and UNBC grad Tom Younger has sights set on woodlots, small-scale forestry
This article was first published in the Fall 2023 edition of BC Forest Professional. Online atwww.fpbc.ca/practice-resources/bc-forest-professional-magazine. By Mike Hall Tom Younger knew he wanted to apply his passions as a…
Woodlots leading the way to innovative practices
By Melissa Steidle, North Region Woodlot Representative In mid-October, the Prince George Woodlot Association organized a field tour of a commercial thinned block in the PG TSA near the Willow…
Seinen family woodlot receives 2023 Minister’s Award
Jon Seinen, W0126, of Houston, BC is the 2023 recipient of the Minister’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Woodlot Management. Seinen was presented with a signed certificate and a…
Annual Report 2022/2023
Find out what Woodlots BC was up to in 2022-2023. Check out the annual report presented at the 2023 Woodlots BC Conference held in Cranbrook, BC from October 26-28, 2024.…