The annual BVRC awards are open for nominations.  Each year the Centre provides the opportunity for recognition of those who have contributed to the understanding of responsible natural resource stewardship in northwest BC. The Jim Pojar Award is granted to…

About the Seminar Movers and shakers in natural resources management typically focus on big, top-down drivers of ecological change: climate, wildfires, clearcutting, charismatic megafauna. But complex systems science teaches that we must also pay attention to small things, like seeds,…

The Irving Fox Memorial Scholarship for Natural Resources Research and Management is accepting applications. Eligible applicants must have a connection to NW BC and be enrolled in or entering a full-time or part-time post-secondary program (technical institution, college, university—undergraduate, graduate,…

About this Presentation This seminar explores how the Wet’suwet’en manage their lands amid tensions between Western government systems and Indigenous ways of knowing. Using a method called counter-mapping, the OW Natural Resources Department developed technical skills in drone operations and…

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION Since about 2013, both the total area burned and the size of individual wildfires have been increasing across sub-boreal spruce ecosystems in the central and northern interior of B.C. Not surprisingly, this has brought greater attention to…

About this Presentation As part of a North Area effort to understand the impacts of climate change to forests and ecosystems in northern BC, several field-based research projects have been initiated over the last two decades by the Ministry of…