Managing for resilience and mid-term timber supply on a dynamic landbase
When: February 27-28, 2018
Where: Prince George Civic Centre, Prince George, BC
With an unprecedented wildfire season behind us and the spruce beetle outbreak continuing to expand, there are widespread challenges on the horizon. Some of the challenges are familiar and some seem new due to the cumulative complexity of forests and the systems that regulate them. Land managers must find innovative ways to sustain ecosystems and enhance the value of the available natural resources on a landbase that is ever-changing. In a time where policy, land ownership, ecology and climate are all shifting it is the role of the Silviculturalist to assess the current situation and use visionary thinking to look forward, act now, and create the resilient forests of tomorrow.
The aim of the 2018 NSC Winter Conference was to provide ideas, tools, and contacts that will help you achieve these goals.
AGENDA/PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Day 1, Part 1: Landscape level disturbances and new realities of forest management
8:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30 am – Wildfires – 2017 and beyond – Dana Hicks and Rory Colwell (BC Wildfire Service) – Hicks and Colwell
9:15 am – The application of landscape level fuel breaks in BC fire management – Bruce Blackwell (B.A. Blackwell and Associates Ltd.) – Blackwell
10:00 am – Refreshment Break/Exhibits
10:30 am – Warning signals of adverse interactions between climate change and native stressors in British Columbia forests – Alex Woods (BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development) – Woods
11:15 am – Implementation of a commercial thinning operation: a KISS approach – Phillippe Meek (FPInnovations). –Meek
11:55 am – Special presentation – TBA
12:00 pm – Lunch (provided)
Day 1, Part II:
1:00 pm – Mid-term timber supply in BC and why your silvicultural activities matter more than ever – John Pousette (BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development) – Pousette – Timber supply
1:45 pm – Spruce beetle panel: The Chief Forester’s 2017 Retention Guidance regarding management of Spruce Beetle-Impacted Areas.
– Spruce Beetle in the Omineca. Dr. Jeanne Robert (BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development) – Robert
– The Chief Forester’s retention guidance-Why is it important? – Mike McLachlan (BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development) – McLachlan
– Challenges and Strategies to Regenerating Spruce in the BC Interior Wetbelt. Dale Likes (Canadian Forest Products Ltd.) – Likes
3:00 pm – Refreshment Break/Exhibits
3:30 pm – How much is really enough? Informing Old growth targets with threshold science. Dr. Karen Price, (Independent Consultant – Smithers) – Price
4:15 pm – The role of silviculture in the brave new world of extremes and outliers. Dr. Ken Lertzman (Simon Fraser University) – Lertzman
5:10 pm – Adjourn
5:20 pm – No Host Bar
6:15 pm – Banquet – Prince George Civic Centre
7:15 pm – Speaker – Dr. Hugues Massicotte (UNBC) – Fungi and forests: holobiome, underground connections and uncertainty…was Clements right?
Wednesday, February, 28, 2018
Day 2: Treatments, Tools, and Data Acquisition Options for New Silvicultural Challenges
8:15 am – Welcome back and opening remarks
8:30 am – Should stocking standards be a team sport? – Grant Glessing (Tolko Industries Ltd.) – Glessing
9:15 am – The curious case of partial-cut practices in northern BC, and its implications for FRPA, stocking standards, and silvicultural innovation – Mike Jull (Aleza Lake Research Forest) – Jull
10:00 am Refreshment Break/Exhibits
10:30 am – Planning for Road Rehabilitation in the Stuart Nechako Resource District – Darcie Foder, and Steve Thompson (Forsite Consultants) – Thompson and Foder
11:15 am – Re-visiting Watershed Management and Planning: Opportunities and Necessity in Forest Management. – John Rex (BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development) – Rex
12:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm – NSC business meeting
1:20 pm – Forest Community Climate Toolkit and Extension Project plan – Guy Burdikin (on behalf of ABCFP) – Burdikin
1:45 pm – Satellite remote sensing is about asking the right questions – Alex Bevington (BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development) – Bevington
2:30 pm – The impact of new Drone Regulations for the forestry industry in Canada. Declan Sweeney (Unmanned Solutions – Prince George) – Sweeney and Drone Applications in Silviculture. Patrick Crawford and Andrew Plowright (FYBR – Vancouver) – Crawford
3:45 pm – Prize draw
4:00 pm – Adjourn