Speakers

Ashley Tod is a Range Officer with the Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District within the BC Ministry of Forests. She completed her BSc (Land Reclamation) at the University of Alberta and is currently in her final semester of her Master of Natural Resources Stewardship focussing on Rangeland Ecology and Management at Colorado State University. Currently Ashley…

I started with the Ministry of Forests spraying weeds under the Youth employment Program in the Cariboo Region in 1992.  After 3 years of being an auxillary Range Technician, I was hired onto the Williams Lake Forest District as a Range Agrologist.  In 2007 I was promoted to the district Range Officer role.  In 2023,…

Daniel Merth is a Registered Forest Technologist (RFT) with a Diploma in Sustainable Resource Management from BCIT, which he earned in 2015. Since graduating, Daniel has grown his knowledge in the forestry sector through various positions. He began his career on Vancouver Island, working in timber development, before making Williams Lake his home in 2016.…

Hayley Clement FIT has spent most of her life in Williams Lake and graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in 2020 with a degree in Forest Ecology and Management, along with a minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). During her post-secondary education, she spent her summers working for BCTS in silviculture until…

Dr. Jodi Axelson (P.Ag) is a Research Leader in Silviculture in the Office of the Chief Forester (Forest Science, Planning and Practices Branch (FSPPB)) where she leads a research team focused on stand development, mixedwood management, forest nutrition and fertilization, decision support tools and management of long-term trials. Jodi is an adjunct professor in Department…

RPF, Stewardship Forester, Williams Lake First Nation John is originally from Nova Scotia and graduated from UNB in 1996. He worked in Terrace doing silviculture surveys as a summer student and moved to BC upon graduation. He has lived in Williams Lake for 28 years and worked as a consultant until 2019. During this time…

Karen Stout is a Forest Investment Specialist in the Forest Investment and Reporting Branch of the Ministry of Forests.  Karen’s focus is on the implementation of the Forest Investment Program in the South Area.  Karen worked for many years as a consultant on forest management planning and silviculture data reporting and analysis.  She has experience…

Ken Day RPF is a consulting forester in Williams Lake, B.C. where is practice is largely focused on silviculture in dry Douglas-fir forests.  In 2018, he retired from his position of Manager of the UBC Alex Fraser Research Forest after 31 years.  Prior to his time at UBC, Ken worked for various consultants and forest…

Ken Zielke has over forty years of experience in resource managementthroughout British Columbia, the US and Australia. He taught silvicultureand forest ecology at Selkirk College from 1985-90. Since 1990, Ken workedas a consultant, to help clients improve understanding and application ofcomplex partial-cut silvicultural and harvesting systems for a variety ofobjectives. During that time he worked…

 Kristi Iverson R.P.Bio, has focussed on dry Douglas-fir forest ecology and grassland ecology. Kristi, together with other ministry researchers, is collaborating with Williams Lake First Nation on a restoration thinning research trial. Kristi has lived and worked in the Cariboo and southern interior of BC since the mid-1990s on a multitude of ecological classification, management…

I am an Indigenous Registered Professional Forester, with over twenty years of experience practicing silviculture in the Cariboo Region.   I was always interested in pursuing a degree in natural resources, especially since many of my family are involved in the forest industry.  I was born and raised in Salmon Arm, BC.  My father is a…

Taylor Holt is a Silviculture Research Technician with the Forest Science, Planning, and Practices Branch of the Ministry of Forests, where she assists in the management of long-term research installations across the province focused on the impacts of fertilization, thinning, mixed-species stand dynamics, and silvicultural systems. Taylor holds a MSc in Forestry from UBC, where…

Research Soil Scientist with the Ministry of Forests based in Williams Lake (Cariboo Region). Tim earned a PhD from the UBC Faculty of Forestry in 2018. Shortly after, he joined the Ministry of Forests, where he has been leading a research program in soil ecology. Tim’s work encompasses a wide range of interests, including forest…