Learn about updates to the second edition of the Silvicultural Systems Handbook for British Columbia and explore how it supports innovative silviculture practices in this webinar from Forest Professionals BC.
The webinar, Introducing BC’s Silvicultural Systems Handbook (2nd edition): A Provincial Guide for Silvicultural Planning, also helps identify key concepts, such as stand development pathways, naming of silvicultural systems, and content of a silviculture plan.
The 2025 Silvicultural Systems Handbook for British Columbia: Developing Silvicultural Pathways for Diverse Forest Stand and Landscape Goals (LMH 79) replaces the 2003 edition.
The new version responds to the growing need for flexible, innovative silvicultural approaches that reflect BC’s ecological diversity, climate challenges, and evolving social and cultural contexts, including Indigenous perspectives and goals. The handbook further highlights tools and principles for planning, prescribing, and implementing silvicultural systems, with attention to ecological integrity, operational feasibility, and alignment with broader forest management goals.
Presenters:
- Ken Day, RPF
- Mike Jull, RPF;
- Dennis MacDonald, RFT; and
- Shannon Pearce, RPF.
Day has extensive experience in silviculture and forest management in BC. He is the principal of KDay Forestry Ltd., based in Williams Lake, and a contributing author to the 2025 Silvicultural Systems Handbook for British Columbia. His work focuses on practical, ecologically grounded approaches to forest stewardship. Day has played a key role in advancing silvicultural system design and extension across the province.
Jull has spent more than four decades promoting the well-informed and appropriate use of diverse silvicultural systems in BC, and related knowledge and training to forest practitioners. He helped establish several long-term BC Interior silvicultural systems research trials and is a contributing author to the 2025 Silvicultural Systems Handbook for British Columbia (LMH 79). He is also manager of the UNBC Aleza Lake Research Forest near Prince George.
MacDonald is a member of Upper Nicola Band and is a part of the Syilx (Okanagan) Nation and works at Stuwix Resources Joint Venture, a forest management company owned by eight local first nations in the Southern Interior of BC. MacDonald has 28 years of experience in the forest industry and is a strategic advisor with the BC First Nations Forestry Council, as well as an advocate in advancing First Nations holistic stewardship principles supporting sustainable ecosystem and watershed-based management.
Pearce is a forest policy specialist with the Office of the Chief Forester. Since joining the Ministry of Forests in 2016, she has held a variety of roles, with her current focus on policy development related to alternative silvicultural systems. Prior to her work in government, she spent more than two decades as a consulting silviculture forester. During that time, she contributed to silvicultural systems guidance for the coast region as a member of the CRIT Silviculture Working Group and supported the implementation of complex silvicultural systems For Triumph Timber on the North Coast.
Recommended pre-reading:
- The Silvicultural Systems Handbook for British Columbia: Developing Silvicultural Pathways for Diverse Forest Stand and Landscape Goals.
- BCFP magazine article: Introducing BC’s Silvicultural Systems Handbook (2nd edition): A Provincial Guide for Silvicultural Planning to Meet Diverse Forest, Stand, and Landscape Goals.
