Learn about challenges posed by one of BC’s first mega fires in a new webinar from Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC).
Planning, safety, post-fire eligibility assessment, and Douglas-fir reforestation were among the issues raised by the McLure fire, north of Kamloops. The webinar 2003 McLure Fire — Reforestation Learnings explores those issues and new methodologies, tools, and silviculture prescriptions developed to establish new stands on the burned landscape.
Learning outcomes:
- understand the importance of a full office review of the burned areas to aid field eligibility assessments;
- gain awareness of new planning tools, such as burn severity mapping and high-quality post-fire imaging;
- understand that Douglas-fir requires special prescriptions and handling to ensure survival;
- understand that stands targeted for replanting require active monitoring and management; and
- understand that high levels of due diligence must be applied and documented when working in and around burned overstory trees.
Date: Wednesday, November 12
Time: 1-2:30 p.m.
Cost:
- Registrants: $35 (includes GST)
- Non-registrants: $45 (includes GST)
Presenter: Colin Hegan, RPF
Hegan is a silviculturist with Forsite Consultants who specializes in reforesting dry sites in the Thompson-Okanagan Region. Hegan has been involved with the Forests For Tomorrow program since its inception and has worked closely with the provincial leadership teams for the Forest Carbon Initiative and the Forest Investment Program. Hegan started reforesting dry sites in fires while contracting with Ainsworth Lumber Company in Lillooet, using Forest Renewal BC (FRBC) funding.
Recommended pre-reading:
Click the link to read the FPBC Webinar Terms and Conditions.
