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ForesJULY – AUGUST 2015 t BC PROFESSIONAL TASS, TIPSY and Other Provincial Modelling Tools Projecting the Economic Value of Timberlands Conceptualizing a Greener Vancouver The Softwood Lumber Agreement Revisited VIEWPOINTModelling the Future loose bark rocks snow on logs STAYING SAFE IS A BALANCING ACT. hidden roots ice snow covered ground Winter walking conditions can be hazardous. Wear proper footwear. BC Forest Safety Council TakeSlips, smaller trips steps.and falls Stretch are the to second stay limber. most commonIt’s easier workplace to stay well injury. than Stay get on well.your feet with proper footwear, being aware of where you step and carrying only what is needed. BC Forest Safety Council www.bcforestsafe.org It’s easier to stay well than get well. www.bcforestsafe.org Passionate About Forestry Issues? If you stay on top of forestry news and want to provide input on what is covered by BC Forest Professional magazine, consider joining the Editorial Board! 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Ricardo Velasquez, District Silvicultural Forester Viewpoints Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources 9 Forecasting the Future of Forests by Doris Sun, MJ 10 Projecting Value in Timberlands by William Wagner, PhD, RPF 12 Strategic and Tactical Timber Supply Planning by Mike Buell, RPF 14 TASS: Looking Back on 50 Years of Looking Forward by Jim Goudie, MSc 16 Modelling a Greener Vancouver by Kristin Defer, Siyuan Zhao, Alfred Duval, Mengqui (Roger) Chen, Photo: iStock 24 David Flanders, Alicia Lavalle and Stephen Sheppard 18 New Research Alert: Modelling Interest Climate Change Impact on 21 Caught in the Bite: Consumers, Tree Regeneration and Future Workers and Softwood Migration by William Wagner, PhD, RPF by Kevin A. Solarik 20 Economics in the AAC Science in Action Determination Process 22 Young Scientists in Action at by Doug Williams Canada-Wide Science Fair by Linda Haugen, Victoria Platzer and Meagan Haugen-Koechl SEE FULL TESTIMONIAL Departments ON BACK COVER 4 Letters 26 Member News 31 A Moment in Forestry Special Feature 24 What is Public Trust? By Mike Larock, RPF and Megan Hanacek, RPF, RPBio Association Business 6 President’s Report 12 7 CEO’s Report www.snapdcs.com Photo: Fotolia - endostock 8 Association News Cover art by Ken Polsson, stand modelling analyst, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. JULY – AUGUST 2015 | BC FOREST PROFESSIONAL 3 Forest BC PROFESSIONAL BC Forest Professional is published six times a year Prioritize Accountability, Not Exams by the Association of BC Forest Professionals Another iteration of the ABCFP’s exam/entrance process has passed, and I feel it’s time for 602–1281 W. Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6E 3J7 Tel: 604.687.8027 Fax: 604.687.3264 another comment or two. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.abcfp.ca I have a unique perspective I think. Not only do I work in the same office as several budding Managing Editor: Amanda Brittain, ma, abc RPFs, but I have also been their neighbour after hours. In the past year alone, I have witnessed Editor: Doris Sun, mj three very talented young new Foresters-in-Training on their way to becoming highly-skilled Editorial Assistant: Michelle Mentore professionals. Fortunately, their maturation into foresters has everything to do with on-the-job Editorial Board: training, experience and mentoring; and very little to do with the RPF exam and essay process. Ron Hart, rpf; Erika Higgins, rpf; Tom Hoffman, rpf (council rep.); What I have witnessed with all of the new forester candidates is them locked in their houses Marie-Lou LeFrancois, rpf; over beautiful sunny weekends, instead of going to community functions or enjoying our Lindley Little, rpf; Kirstin Storry, rpf; February beaches. I have witnessed and experienced the frustration of losing thousands of wage Roy Strang, rpf(ret); William Wagner, rpf dollars because of under-implementation; or the same frustration by having to waste annual Design: Massyn Design Printing: Rhino Print Solutions leave days to prepare and study. Distribution: Rhino Print Solutions I strongly ask that the ABCFP stop ruining months of people’s lives through this onerous and Advertising Sales Manager: Doris Sun, mj needlessly stringent process. I ask also that the association stop wasting thousands of dollars 602–1281 W. Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6E 3J7 from our annual dues and lost wages by insisting on this exam process, which in my opinion is Tel: 604.639.8103 • Fax: 604.687.3264 E-mail: [email protected] closer to academic hazing than to any means of aiding or ensuring professionalism. ISSN:1715-9164 BC forest professionals have much to be proud of. There also have been monumental forestry Annual subscriptions: Canada; $44.80 incl GST failures, all presided over by us and the association. These successes and failures have very little U.S. and international; $80 Canadian funds to do with the association’s entry, registration and exam process. The association puts too much Publications mail agreement no: 40020895 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: emphasis on front-end/entry processes, and not nearly enough on true accountability—the ABCFP Circulation Department result I believe is an overall culture of false diligence. 602–1281 W. Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6E 3J7 Instead of an exam, why not spend association money on a mandatory two-day train- ing course on the Code of Ethics, and other BC-specific forestry topics? Or why not develop a mentorship-based approach? In my opinion there are much better ways to work towards true professionalism than this large waste of time and money I witness every year. Mark Salzl, rpf PRESIDENT Jonathan Lok, rft VICE-PRESIDENT Christopher Stagg, rpf Aboriginal Title: An Advanced Concept PAST PRESIDENT Dan Graham, llb, rpf that Needs a Legal and Institutional Framework LAY COUNCILLORS Perspectives on Aboriginal title in the last issue were timely given the release of the report of the Rod Visser, Tom Walker Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Geoff Plant spelled out reconciliation in terms of COUNCILLORS forests, as full participation by Aboriginal people in the forest economy. Jill Affleck, rft; Gail Brewer, rpf; Mauro Calabrese, rpf, rpbio; While the Viewpoints articles were well informed and interesting, they somewhat sidestepped Tom Hoffman, rpf; Morgan Kennah, rpf; essential truth about Aboriginal title. It is a community-based sustainable trust that devolves Robin Modesto, rpf, peng; Lisa Perrault, rft; trusteeship from the province. It is incompatible with the existing legal and institutional framework Trevor Swan, rpf of timber harvesting rights under the Forest Act. If we try to manage Aboriginal title under the Forest CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sharon L. Glover, mba Act, it will reduce Aboriginal trusteeship to a child that has to be supervised and we will have a situa- REGISTRAR AND DIRECTOR OF ACT COMPLIANCE Casey Macaulay, rpf tion that mirrors the problems of the Indian Act. DIRECTOR, PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE The community-based sustainable trust concept of Aboriginal title is an advanced concept that AND FOREST STEWARDSHIP needs a legal and institutional framework to make it work. It needs some form of democratic repre- Mike Larock, rpf sentation from the community and it requires some trained professional resource managers. DIRECTOR, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION The best way to make Aboriginal title compatible within a framework for sustainable steward- Lance Nose ship of Crown forest is to turn the rest into local trusts. Forest-dependent communities have been DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS Amanda Brittain, ma, abc somewhat dispossessed of their healthy forests by the existing framework of harvesting rights. Local DIRECTOR, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT trusts could reconcile the situation and bring sustainability. In some areas, there will be competing AND MEMBER RELATIONS Aboriginal title and community forest claims. One local trust can be designated as a ward system Brian Robinson, rpf from the various Aboriginal and other communities can make up the board of governance. Trained BC Forest Professional is the professional magazine of the Association of BC Forest Professionals (ABCFP). forest professionals would supply management on all Aboriginal and other Crown forest under Editorial submissions, comments, letters to the editor, devolved local stewardship. articles and photos should be sent to the editor, Aboriginal title is an advanced concept of a sustainable community forest trust that should apply address above. The opinions expressed in BC Forest Professional do not necessarily represent those of to all forest-dependent communities. We need a new legal and institutional framework to make it the ABCFP, its council or other members. Reprinting work. Rub all communities with the same brush. and copying of BC Forest Professional articles is Andrew Mitchell, rpf encouraged. Please include a credit to both the author and BC Forest Professional. 4 BC FOREST PROFESSIONAL | JULY – AUGUST 2015 Letters Increasing Weather Extremes Require Swift Action Successful Fire Management in a Changing Climate In Robert Mohr’s letter in the May/June issue of BC Forest Professional he I have some concerns about the new BC Timber Sales Climate Change states “…the IPCC’s own technical summary of the most recent research Strategy and the article on “Adapting Silvicultural Practices to Minimize indicates that there is little or no evidence of increasing extreme weather Climate Change” that was featured in the March/April issue of BC Forest events.” This statement goes too far.