Category: Seminar Series

Wildfire: What Do We Know About the Efficacy of Fuel Management?
05/22/25 | Seminar Series

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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Climate Change Monitoring and Research in the Skeena Region
05/12/25 | Seminar SeriesWhat's New

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…

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Forest Management for Climate Change Mitigation in Northwestern British Columbia
04/22/25 | Seminar SeriesWhat's New

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
04/07/25 | Seminar Series

  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
02/21/25 | Seminar SeriesWhat's New

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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The Hottest Year On Record, Again
01/29/25 | Seminar SeriesWhat's New

About this Presentation 2024 was globally the hottest year on record. If this sounds familiar that is because the previous hottest year on record was 2023, and the top ten hottest years on record have all occurred in the past…

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