Program - Coastal Silviculture Committee

Coastal Silviculture Committee
“Reassessing our Silviculture Practices for Uncertain Times”
VIU Nanaimo February 26, 2015
8:15 to 8:45
Registration
8:45 to 9:00
Michel Vallee – VIU
Welcome, Introduction, Safety, etc.
9:00 to 9:15
Diane Nicholls
Acting Chief Forester – MoFLNRO
Opening Address
9:15 to 10:00
Rod Negrave – MoFLNRO
The middle ground between even and
uneven aged Silviculture Systems and their
implications on growth and yield
10:00 to 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 to 11:15 Bill Bourgeois
Diverse Silviculture Practices for a Diverse
Future Wood Supply – What Are the Barriers to
Change and Innovation?
11:15 to 12:00 Andy MacKinnon, Heather Klassen
& Sari Saunders – MOFLNRO
Climate change and its ecological effects on BC’s
coastal forest,
12:00 to 13:15 Lisa Meyers – CSC
Business Meeting and Lunch
13:15 to 14:00 Paul Griffiths – Consultant
Forest management on Karst –
reforestation to broadcast burning.
14:00 to 14:45 Graham Hues – WFP
Species selection in a changing climate? What
have we done in the past, what changes do we
make in the future?
14:45 to 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 to 15:30 Paul Barolet – MoFLNRO
Summer Workshop 2015
15:30 to 16:00 Cosmin Filipescu, CFS-NRCAN
Conclusions and wrap up