Category: Seminar Series
Working In Conflict: Being Your Best In An Imperfect World
About this Presentation While there are tools and skills that can help manage, reduce, or resolve conflict, we may find ourselves in workplace conflicts - among individuals, organizations, or cultures - that seem irresolvable. This presentation will include a brief…
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Building Technological Capacity in Indigenous Natural Resource Governance
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…
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Wildfire: What Do We Know About the Efficacy of Fuel Management?
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…
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Forest Management for Climate Change Mitigation in Northwestern British Columbia
About this Presentation Almost half of Canada's wood products originate from clear-cut harvesting in British Columbia. Sustainable forest management choices can offer transformative alternatives that support regional and global climate mitigation goals. One promising approach is the substitution of partial…
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BC Mountain Goat Society
The BC Mountain Goat Society has grants available for research in BC. Full info can be found here. About this Presentation Len and Jim will introduce the BC Mountain Goat Society. Learn about what the Society does and some of the…
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Combining Thinning & Diverse Plantings to Adapt to Climate Change-Induced Timber Supply Shortages
About this Presentation British Columbia’s forest sector faces mounting challenges due to climate change, past disturbances, and an impending mid-term timber supply shortage. While commercial thinning is a well-established silvicultural tool at the stand scale, its effectiveness at the landscape…
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