Indigenous Jurisdiction an Ancient and Modern Reality
NALMA Raising Professional Standards in First Nation Land Management
What About Drones?
Tsilhqot’in Nation Enhances Compliance and Education in Territory
B.C.’s Major Forestry and Harvesting Contractor Associations Request WorkSafeBC Pilot TEAAM . . .
TEAAM’s Recent Dramatic and Possibly Life-saving Missions Show Value of HEMS Service to Resource and Wilderness Adventure Sectors
WFCA Annual Meeting 2023
Tŝilhqot’in Respond to Independent Wildfire Review
RETURN TO FRONT PAGE
WFCA 2024 - Lacey Rose Speaks to Women in Wood
Ts^ilhqot’in have shown significant leadership in this area.
Prototype seed planting drone with LIDAR
Returning to Prescribed Burning is an Old Idea to Make New Again
Remove Plastics from Planting
Shouldn’t It Be The “New Abnormal”?
Poll Finds Logging Road Deactivation Widespread and Hazardous
A Landscape Ecologist, a Mayor and a Sociologist Walk Into a Forestry Conference…
For planting trees
Fed Report Says B.C. Falling Short on Meeting Climate Change Challenges
WFCA Sees Replanting Season in a Covid-19 Light
Tsilhqot’in Nation Celebrated Mushroom Harvest Success
FORESTRY
How Not to Get Ransomed by Cybercriminals
S100A Refresher Course Keeps Forest Fire Fighting Safety on The Front Burner
It’s been an animated year so far for B.C. forestry conferences. The TLA annual convention was well attended again. The 2019 ABCFP conference was sold out weeks in advance. And the WFCA event at the end of January had the largest attendance ever. For those of us who organize these things we like to think it’s our programs that are so attractive. But there’s likely something else drawing people together lately in such strength.
RETROSPECTIVE
Taking the temperature of a planter as part of pre-work COVID screening on a crew in the South Interior of British Columbia (slightly to the left of the middle of nowhere)
Chief Joe Alphonse
The Mechanics of Better Training
Unprecedented Increase in Surveying, Sowing and Planting
BC Summer Planting Winding Up/Down After Some Delays and Strains
Government Consults on Proposed FRPA Legislation Changes
WFCA Board of Directors Revises Members’ Code of Conduct
. . . and Study of Provincial Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Model for all Remote Resource Workers
In recent years, a new priority in fire protection has emerged in British Columbia (B.C.). "Structure protection trailer units have been put in service by the Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) and other jurisdictions. Structure Protection Unit are used to protect homes, commercial buildings and all structures threatened by Wildland fires," said Jake Jacobson of Wildwood Resources Ltd. in Salmon Arm, B.C..
Jacobson says the province has several Structure Protection semi-trailers that are dispatched quickly with trained personnel to communities that are threatened by a wildfire.