Nicholas Soverel

Founder and Principal Forester, Frontera Forest Solutions, Inc

‘Frontera’ is a forestry consulting company based in North Vancouver with thirteen full-time staff focused on finding dynamic solutions to contemporary forestry issues. Nick has 20 years of experience working in land management and 15 years working within the fuels and wildfire management arena.

Presentation Abstract

For the past year, the Cheakamus Community Forest (the CCF) has embarked on a climate resilience planning framework. To this end, the CCF has collaborated with Frontera Forest Solutions and CRGL in developing a climate risk assessment and an operational strategy to institute this framework. This presentation will focus on the CCF’s climate risk assessment (https://cheakamuscommunityforest.com/news/climate-change-risk-assessment/); including the process and methods employed and ther risk assessment’s findings – including visualizations of the CCF’s wildfire threat and risk.