Scott King

Silviculture Forester, Forestry and Natural Resources, Pacific Woodtech

Scott works and resides in the traditional unceded territory of the Ktunaxa and Secwépmec Nations and honours the cultures, languages, and First Nations people of these territories.

Scott started his forestry career working for Industrial Forestry Service (IFS) in 1987 and became an RPF in 1989. He remained with IFS until June of 1996. Throughout that time Scott spent working on timber cruising, road layout, block layout, silviculture surveys and silviculture prescriptions. As a consultant he worked exclusively in the BC interior, experiencing a Lilloet summer, Fort Nelson winter and Terrace rains. In fact, although he was based in Prince George, Scott loves travelling so Prince George is the forest type he is least familiar with. Scott and his spouse Connie moved to Golden British Columbia in June of 1996 where they both started working for Evans Forest Products Ltd., Connie as the woodlands accountant and Scott was hired as the Silviculture Forester. For the next 26 years, their desks were 10 feet apart. Shortly thereafter Evans Forest Products was purchased by an American investor Georges St. Laurent who added Laminated Veneer Lumber to the plywood mill profile. A few years later Mr. St. Laurent sold his investment to Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd. In August of 2022, Pacific Woodtech Canada Holdings purchased the mill from LP. Scott went with the sale, Connie didn’t. Scott operates exclusively within the Golden TSA, planting a mixture of spruce, Lodgepole pine, Douglas Fir, cedar, hemlock, Balsam fir, larch and White Pine between 795-2000m. The primary BEC zones are ICHwk1/mk1/vk1/mw1, ESSFmm3/wc2/vc/dk2 and MSdk2. On average, the planting volume is 1million trees a year. The primary silviculture systems are clearcut, clearcut with reserves and Intermediate Cut. In addition to his silviculture responsibilities, Scott helps secure fibre for the mill co-generation plant and sells the wood that isn’t traded with other facilities. Scott and Connie have two girls that have successfully finished post-secondary school and after all these years are still unwilling to cover their own cell phone charges. In his spare time Scott helps with Rocky Mountain School District and the local Credit Union.