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…
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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…
Woodlots focus on forest resiliency and engagement at conference
Cranbrook, BC – Woodlot licensees and forestry stakeholders from across the province will be meeting in Cranbrook this weekend, October 26-28, 2023, at St. Eugene’s Golf Resort and Casino for…
Woodland Almanac: Fall 2023
Swedes Tour BC Woodlots Jan Hedberg, a woodlot holder in Sweden, and his tour group of Swedes recently visited Canada, including a stop in Prince George to see Finnish Ponsse…
Who’s speaking at the Woodlot Conference?
The 2023 Woodlot Conference and AGM is just around the corner! Woodlotters from around the province are converging in Cranbrook from October 26 to 28 to dig deeper into the…
Woodlots at UBCM Trade Show – Vancouver
Gord Chipman, FBCWA General Manager, Lisa Marak, woodlot licensee, and Sarah Sutton, FBCWA Communications Coordinator, attended the UBCM Convention Trade Show from September 20-21. This event created many opportunities to…
Early season wildfires affect woodlots in the north
Summers in BC are synonymous with wildfires and this year is no different. In fact, 2023 is officially BC’s worst wildfire season on record in terms of hectares burned. And woodlots…
Woodland Almanac: Summer 2023
Students experience on-the-ground forestry learning on local woodlot High school students from Nechako Lakes School District (SD91) took part in the annual Project Forest Management in May 2023 on Omineca…
Woodland Almanac: Spring 2023
Farewell Woodlot World My woodlot’s gone! For over 35 years it was a major part of my life, from the first few years when I heard about the program, through…