Past Workshops
2020 Winter Workshop
"Silviculture to the Rescue!"
Increasing merchantable volume from a declining land base through improved silvicultural practices.
Increasing merchantable volume from a declining land base through improved silvicultural practices.

Program - 2020 Winter Workshop.pdf |
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 |