March 3 – 5, Kamloops
Coast Kamloops Conference Centre
Improving Our Silviculture Practice
Thank you to all attendees, sponsors and volunteers that helped make this event a success!
Improving our silviculture practice requires us to answer some key questions:
How do we define silviculture today, in light of huge natural and social changes? What new tools are available for our silviculture practice that reflect that change; what new research is underway and what boots-on-the-ground trial and error is being undertaken? And because ours is a shared public resource, how does government policy support innovative silviculture practices that can respond quickly to ever-changing site conditions? And finally, we need to clearly tie silviculture practices to economics; we need to know the costs of producing timber products, ecosystem services, and all the other values we expect from our forests.
Our silviculturists must consider the inclusion of so many values: water and wildlife, recreation and hunting, timber and visuals, and climate change mitigation that addresses safety from wildfire for our forests and our communities. We need forestry practices that acknowledge our cultural relationships with the forest, our economic dependency on the forest, and the critical ecosystem services we derive from our forests.
To see the topics and speakers click on the Speakers Tab and the Program Tab at the top of this page.
Thank you to our Sponsors:
Presentations
- Lorraine Machlauclan
- Presentation 2
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