Northern Silviculture Committee of BC

02/17/2022

The first of the NSC spring 2022 webinars is taking place on March 9th, 2022 - 8:30-noon.
Theme: Managing for Forest Health and Resiliency in response to natural disturbances.
The second webinar of the session will be on April 6, 2022 - 8:30-noon.
Theme: Silvicultural choices for complex stands in changing environments (with NSC AGM to follow).
Visit the NSC website for the full Agenda and a link to the registration page.

Webinar 1 – Managing for Forest Health and Resiliency in response to natural disturbancesMarch 9, 20229:00 am – noonOnline: Zoom Webinar

01/12/2021

The first of the NSC winter webinars is taking place on January 21st - 8:30-noon.
Theme: Innovations and New Approaches in Woody-fuel and Wildfire-risk Reductions for Central BC Interior Community Interface Forests
Visit the NSC website for the full Agenda and a link to the registration page.

Webinar 1: Innovations and New Approaches in Woody-fuel and Wildfire-risk Reductions for Central BC Interior Community Interface ForestsThursday, January 21, 20218:30 am – noon

11/25/2020

Dear NSC friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that our Northern Silviculture Committee (NSC) team is planning to deliver new NSC on-line extension events this winter, both to adapt to changing times and to better meet the needs of our far-flung NSC community across the BC Central and Northern Interior.

We will be offering two different multi-presenter NSC Winter Webinars in the coming months, including the following preliminary dates and topics:

January 2021 (date TBA)

Webinar Topic(s) – Emerging Approaches and Tactics for Planning & Implementing Woody-fuel and Wildfire Risk Reductions in Central BC Interior Community Interface Forests

March 2021 (date TBA) Innovations in Northern BC Reforestation

Our NSC webinar planning team will be providing you with more detailed information on these webinars in the next few weeks. This detail is anticipated by the end of November, 2020.

We will also be posting information on our NSC website at http://nsc-bc.org/. Additional enquiries may be directed to our NSC program coordinator Al, at [email protected] .

As you may know, the NSC Society was established in 1974 and is now in its 47th year. It is a non-profit, non-partisan, volunteer-run, member-driven organization. Our mission is to foster increased co-operation, understanding, and improvement of silviculture and forest management planning and practices in the Central and Northern Interior regions of British Columbia.

We hope to resume our traditional and popular NSC Winter Workshop in an in-person format in 2022, as Covid protocols and public heath directives allow.

The NSC Society directors and team wish you, your family, friends, and community a happy and safe upcoming holiday season.

All the best,

Al Wiensczyk, NSC Program Coordinator
Dominique Bailey (NSC Vice-chair)
Mike Jull (NSC Chair)

Co-operation, understanding and improvement of silviculture practices

07/08/2020

July 7th, 2020

To: Member and colleagues
Northern Silviculture Committee Society (NSC)

Re: Update on Northern Silviculture Committee (NSC) 2020 extension activities

Dear NSC members,

I am writing this note to you today to update you on the NSC’s plans and considerations for our forestry and silviculture extension and education events for the balance of the 2020 year.

Since the NSC’s establishment in 1974, our mission and goal has always been, as a “non-partisan organization, to promote cooperation, understanding and improvement in the application of silvicultural practices at the field level”. The sharing of silvicultural knowledge and opportunities for ongoing professional networking are vital components of NSC events.

The board of the NSC Society has met several times this Spring 2020 to discuss several strategic initiatives for the NSC, and also to discuss how the NSC may continue to deliver our silvicultural and forestry extension and education goals under the current limitations of Covid-19 and related public health measures in British Columbia. These limitations extend, of course, to the design and delivery of NSC events in 2020, and possibly beyond.

The NSC directors are unanimous in our view that although Covid-19 issues may change our means of extension and networking on silvicultural issues for the time being, we will pivot our delivery modules to meeting the continuing needs of NSC members for high-quality silvicultural information. And, as the saying goes “not forever, but for now”.

In this spirit, the NSC board after much discussion came to two key decisions:
1. We made a reluctant but realistic decision to cancel the traditional NSC summer / Fall field tour this year, to help do our part in maintaining the health of our colleagues and communities. But;
2. In place of the traditional NSC field tour, we are developing alternative silviculture education and extension opportunities for NSC members for Fall 2020, via remote / web delivery, in collaboration with all of our various partner groups.

No decision has yet been made on the 2021 NSC Winter Conference. This will be considered later this calendar year as more information becomes available.

Thank you for your ongoing support of the NSC and our collective goals through your attendance and participation in our various events over the years. We are working hard to keep the NSC active and relevant to your needs in a changing and sometimes challenging world.

We will keep you posted! Take care.

Mike Jull RPF
President / Chair
Northern Silviculture Committee Society

03/22/2011

01/20/2011

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