Past Workshops & Presentations
Here you can find past programs and presentations from CSC Workshops through the years. This page only includes content which presenters gave express permission to share.
2025 Summer Workshop
"Non Clearcut approaches for coastal silviculture... Continued" (Mid-Island, Campbell River)
"Non Clearcut approaches for coastal silviculture... Continued" (Mid-Island, Campbell River)
| Program - 2025 Summer Workshop |
| NEIL HUGHES - Hardwood Management Implementation |
| DAVE WEAVER - Waterloo Creek Grand Fir |
| KWADWO OMARI - Rethinking Douglas Fir Silviculture (STEMS) |
| TAISA BROWN - Surveying and Reporting Complex Stands |
2025 Winter Workshop
"Non Clearcut approaches for coastal silviculture"
What has worked, what hasn’t and where do we go from here?
"Non Clearcut approaches for coastal silviculture"
What has worked, what hasn’t and where do we go from here?
| Program - 2025 Winter Workshop |
| BRYCE BANCROFT - The BC Silviculture Systems Handbook |
| BILL BEESE - Alternative silvicultural systems (MASS) and variable retention (VRAM) research |
| JOHN DEAL - 25 Years of VR Implementation on WFP Tenure |
| MONTANA GODDARD - Silvicultural Systems in the Great Bear Rainforestunder Ecosystem Based Management |
| KONA VAN DIEST - Green Initiatives Seedling Services |
2024 Summer Workshop
"Managing for Multiple Resource Values through Silviculture" (Chilliwack/Mission)
"Managing for Multiple Resource Values through Silviculture" (Chilliwack/Mission)
| Program - 2024 Summer Workshop |
2024 Winter Workshop
"Resilience - Adapting to Change"
| Program - 2024 Winter Workshop |
2023 Summer Workshop
“Wildfire Hazard Abatement from a Silviculture Perspective” (Nanaimo)
| Program - 2023 Summer Workshop |
2022 Summer Workshop
"Adapting to Our Social License Through Alternative Forest Management Strategies"
"Adapting to Our Social License Through Alternative Forest Management Strategies"
| Program - 2022 Summer Workshop |
| LAURIE KREMSATER |
2020 Winter Workshop
"Silviculture to the Rescue!"
Increasing merchantable volume from a declining land base through improved silvicultural practices.
"Silviculture to the Rescue!"
Increasing merchantable volume from a declining land base through improved silvicultural practices.
| Program - 2020 Winter Workshop |
2019 Summer Workshop
"Will Tradition work in the Transition?... Continued!"
Exploring challenges and new approaches in a rapidly changing coastal climate - The Coastal Transition Zone (CTZ)
"Will Tradition work in the Transition?... Continued!"
Exploring challenges and new approaches in a rapidly changing coastal climate - The Coastal Transition Zone (CTZ)
| Program - 2019 Summer Workshop |
2019 Winter Workshop
"Will Tradition work in the Transition?"
Exploring challenges and new approaches in a rapidly changing coastal climate - The Coastal Transition Zone (CTZ)
"Will Tradition work in the Transition?"
Exploring challenges and new approaches in a rapidly changing coastal climate - The Coastal Transition Zone (CTZ)
| Program - 2019 Winter Workshop |
| NORM CALDICOTT - Introduction to the CTZ |
| BABITA BAINS - 2018/19 Forest Health Coast Update |
| RALPH SCHROEDER - Issues in CWH ds1 Sites |
| MICHAEL STOEHR - A versus B Class Seed in CTZ: Who will win? |
| WILL MACKENZIE - Climate Change Informed Species Selection (CCISS) |
| REBECCA SHERIDAN - Physiological approaches to reforestation of Oregon's Coastal Transition Zone |
2018 Summer Workshop
"Is Silviculture a true Team Sport?... Continued"
Exploring new information, collaboration, and professionalism.
"Is Silviculture a true Team Sport?... Continued"
Exploring new information, collaboration, and professionalism.
| Program - 2018 Summer Workshop |
| BRYCE BANCROFT - High Elevation Species Selection |
| SARI SAUNDERS/HEATHER KLASSEN - BEC Classification and Species Selection |
| STEFAN ZEGLAN - Testing Resistant Western White Pine |
| Climate-based Seed Transfer |
2018 Winter Workshop
"Is Silviculture a true Team Sport?"
Exploring new information, collaboration, and professionalism.
"Is Silviculture a true Team Sport?"
Exploring new information, collaboration, and professionalism.
| Program - 2018 Winter Workshop |
| JOHN ANDRES & TAISA BROWN - Elk Damage in the Campbell River Area |
| NAOMI PALULIS - Professional Reliance Review |
| DARIUS BUCHER - Silviculture Trialling |
| PAUL BAVIS - Hemlock Silviculture |
| ERIC TURNBLOM - Stand Management Co-op |
| MELANIE PLETT & ARRON SMEETH - Forest Investment |
| CSC Summer Workshop Preview |
2017 Summer Workshop
"Mitigating Projected Timber Supply Declines"
Mission, Maple Ridge and the Fraser Valley
"Mitigating Projected Timber Supply Declines"
Mission, Maple Ridge and the Fraser Valley
| Program - 2017 Summer Workshop |
| DEL WILLIAMS - Harvesting Young Stands |
| DOUG LAYDEN - Mitigating Projected Timber Supply Declines |
| STEFAN ZEGLAN - Swiss Needle Cast, Douglas-fir, and You |
| HARRY KOPE - Juvenile Spacing and Forest Health |
| NEIL HUGHES - Mixedwood Management |
| KELLY CAMERON - TFL 26 Backgrounder |
| KELLY CAMERON - TFL 26 Commerical Thinning |
2017 Winter Workshop
"Mitigating Projected Timber Supply Declines"
"Mitigating Projected Timber Supply Declines"
| Program - 2017 Winter Workshop |
| ANTHONY BRITNEFF AND MARTIN WATTS - Uncertainty Relative to the TSR Process |
| ELEANOR MCWILLIAMS - Projecting Regenerated Stand Growth for Timber Supply & Silviculture Decision Making |
| DAN TURNER AND DAVE WADDELL - Using RESULTS as a MSYT Input |
| RICK MONCHAK - Timber Supply: Why Silviculture Matters |
| STEFAN ZEGLAN - Forest Health Impact on the TSR |
2016 Summer Workshop
"Managing for Multiple Resource Values through Silviculture the Follow-Up"
Municipality of North Cowichan, Duncan & the Cowichan Valley
Municipality of North Cowichan, Duncan & the Cowichan Valley
| Program - 2016 Summer |
2016 Winter Workshop
“Managing for Multiple Resource Values through Silviculture”
| Program - 2016 Winter Workshop |
| SHANNON JENZEN WFP - A Chief Forester's Perspective |
| CHRIS RUNNALS AND RUSSELL BREWER - Vegetation Management - Past, Present, and Future |
| JEFF SHATFORD - IMPACTS OF JUVENILE SPACING AND COMMERCIAL THINNING ON WILDLIFE HABITAT |
| RAY TRAVERS - MANAGING FOR MULTIPLE RESOURCE VALUES IN BC’S FORESTS |
| KELLY CAMERON - SILVICULTURE PRACTICES IN COMMUNITY WATERSHEDS |
| PAUL RESHLER - Integrated Silviculture Strategy: Arrowsmith TSA |
| DARREL FRANK - CSC - SUMMER WORKSHOP 2016 |
2015 Summer Workshop
“Reassessing Silviculture, What’s worked, and Where’s the uncertainty”
| Program - 2015 Summer Workshop |
| CSC Summer 2015 Survey Results - Take Home Messages |
2015 Winter Workshop
“Reassessing our Silviculture Practices for Uncertain Times”
| Program- 2015 Winter Workshop |
| Dave Nicholls |
| Rod Negrave |
| Andy McKinnon |
| Bill Bourgeois |
| Paul Griffiths |
| Graham Hues |
2014 Summer Workshop
The Lowdown on Tree Speciesism ... Powell River Style* - "How practices impact timber supply"
| Program - 2014 Summer Wrokshop |
2014 Winter Workshop
Silviculture "Speciesism" - Does it matter to AAC?
| Program - 2014 Winter Workshop |
| CRAIG WICKLAND AND BRYCE BANCROFT - Introduction |
| PAT BRYANT - TSR 101 and Species Impact on TSR |
| STEFAN ZEGLAN AND JIM BROWN - Forest Health and TSR |
| GORDON WEETMAN - Allowable Cut Effect |
| ANNETTE VAN NIEJENHUIS - Basic and Incremental Silviculture assumptions within TSR |
| PAUL BAROLET - Do I use SDM or Young Stand Monitoring data in TSR? |
| RICK DEJONG - Do I use SDM or Young Stand Monitoring data in TSR? |
| JEFF AND ELEANOR MCWILLIAMS - Early second growth harvesting – Good or Bad? |
| CSC Winter 2014 Wrap-Up - Cosmin |
2013 Summer Workshop
Free Growing Into What?
| Program - 2013 Summer Workshop |
2013 Winter Workshop
FREE GROWING – EXPOSED
| Program - 2013 Winter Workshop |
| Mike Wyeth - History of Free Growing Policy and Legislation - "How it all began" |
| Mike DesRochers - Free Growing Ocular Assessments |
| Rick Monchak - Free Growing, Now What? |
| Stefan Zeglen & Dave Weaver - Stand Development Monitoring (SDM) - Post Free Growing – "the Early Coastal Experience" |
| Ralph Schroeder - C & E Free Growing Helicopter Surveys |
| Roger Whitehead - LiDAR 101 |
| Brian Saunders - LiDAR for Silviculture Surveys |
2012 Summer Workshop
INCREMENTAL SILVICULTURE – MIRACLE or MYTH
What works for the coast of BC?
(Episode Two)
What works for the coast of BC?
(Episode Two)
| Program - 2012 Summer Workshop |
| Post Workshop Summary |
2012 Winter Workshop
INCREMENTAL SILVICULTURE – MIRACLE or MYTH
What works for the coast of BC?
What works for the coast of BC?
| Program - 2012 Winter Workshop |
| Workbook |
| Ralph Winter - Incremental Silviculture for Coastal BC |
| Kevin Hardy - Social Forestry Programs and Juvenile Spacing …Has it been good for our forests? |
| Rob Harrison - Douglas-fir nutrition |
| Cosmin Filipescu - Wood Quality and Incremental Silviculture; What do we Know? What are we Still Learning? |
| Brian Kyle - The Operational Implementation of Alder Spacing |
| Craig Farnden - A Context and Strategy for Intensive Management of Red Alder |
2011 Summer Workshop
Species Diversity and Climate Change
| Program - 2011 Summer Workshop |
2011 Winter Workshop
Species Diversity
"What is it?.....Do we have it?......How do we manage for it?"
"What is it?.....Do we have it?......How do we manage for it?"
| Program - 2011 Winter Workshop |
| Dave Coats - Species Selection and Stocking: Landscape-scale approach to promote adaptability and self-organization |
| Louise de Montigny - Can red alder be used as an adaptation strategy to reduce environmental, social and economic risks of climate change? |
| John Russell - A Tale of Two Cedars: Western Red cedar and Yellow-Cedar |
| Brian Saunders - Private Land Species Management;Establishment, Mid Rotation, & Exotics |
| Allan Staringer - A Tour of Mixed Species Management on Pilchuck Tree Farm |
| Dave Weaver & Lorne Bedford - Multi-block Landscape Standard (MLS) |
| Alex Woods - FREP Stand Development Monitoring (SDM) Is this what we planned for? |
2010 Summer - No Workshop
2010 Winter Workshop
BENEFITING FROM SILVICULTURE TODAY AND TOMORROW
| Program - 2010 Winter Workshop |
| Graham Hues - Elk Impact on Regeneration |
| Allan Powelson - Multi Block Stocking Standards |
| Brian Saunders - High Genetic Gain Seedlots |
| Jeff McWilliams - Fertilization |
| Brian D'Anjou - Mt. Benson WL Site Prep Trials |
| Shirley Mah - SIBEC Update, Improved SI Estimates |
| John King - Resistant Pw/Sx Material |
| Jennifer Burleigh - Strategic Gypsy Moth Control |
| Ed Korpela - Silviculture & Wildfire, Making the Link |
| Jeff Sandford - Predicting Hw Wood Quality Using Acoustic Velocity |
| Paul Liddy - Modeling Bioenergy for the Clean Power Sector > 10 MW |
2009 Summer Workshop
SILVICULTURE PRACTICES
Getting The Best Value From Your Forest Landbase
Getting The Best Value From Your Forest Landbase
| Program - 2009 Summer Workshop |
| Introduction |
| Variable Retention Windthrow Monitoring Project |
2009 Winter Workshop
| Program - 2009 Winter Workshop |
| Introduction |
| Gregg O'Neill - Assisted Migration Adaptation Trial |
| Shirley Mah & Kevin Astridge - Tree Species Selection project |
| Ken Zielke - FREP Monitoring Protocol For Timber Objectives and Partial Cutting |
| Stephan Zeglan - Stand Development Monitoring |
| Bill Beese - A Decade of Variable Retention in Coastal BC |
| Brian Raymer - Forest Carbon & Silviculture |
| John Andreas- Strathcona TSA: Future Forest Estate Strategy |
| Rick Monchak - Hardwood Management Strategy for the Coast region |
| 2009 VIU Scholarships Coastal Silviculturist of the Year |
2008 Summer Workshop
Managing our Forests for Resilience through Silviculture
| Program - 2008 Summer Workshop |
