Practice

The combination of a gutted Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forestlands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity for forest industrialists to burn down the last barriers to privatization of BC’s Crown forests.  Read more

A decade of cuts has left a priceless resource facing a homemade crisis. There is an old saying that if the forest service is not planting trees, then it is not doing its job. When reforestation was the law in British Columbia, the forest ministry reported in its 2000-01 annual report that the area of …  Read more

Race car driver Alan Sidorov owner of Sidorov Precision Driver Training has helped revise push-pull steering instruction for the WSCA Resource Road Light Truck Driver Training course. Sidorov emphasizes that practicing push-pull steering and other good driving behaviours through practice will ensure drivers will more automatically rely on these better habits in an emergency and …  Read more

Prepare yourself for this year’s upcoming fire season: It is going to be a mild one.  Read more

By plane, large spots of red spread like a bad case of the measles through B.C.’s forests.  Read more

I was shocked to read the Minister of Forests quoted as stating we only “plant what we harvest” in a recent article.  Read more

Interior Truck and Logger Magazine, Spring 2010 Nobody should be surprised that the province’s silviculture sector is headed for the leanest times seen since the recession of the ’80s.  Read more

In less than a decade, British Columbia has gone from environmental leader to environmental laggard in stewarding one of our most important natural resources. And it could not come at a worse time, as we grapple with climate change and its horrendous impact on our forests.  Read more

Re: Billion-plus trees killed by pine beetle turns B.C.’s forests into carbon emitter, report says, Jan. 12th. It is encouraging to see the report from Ben Parfitt proposing some concrete ways to include forests in B.C.’s efforts to address climate change. But one of the report’s key recommendations points to a problem. The report notes …  Read more