Creatively United for the Planet | The Call for a New Forest Framework @creativelyunited | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
What’s wrong with how forestry is practised in BC today?
Why are old growth forests so precious?
What are the solutions and implementation timelines?
Join Kathy Code, of the Ecoforestry Institute Society, and Jonathan O’Riordan, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, as they talk about the current model of forestry and the need to build a new approach to sustaining our forests, from the ground up.
The environmental health of our remaining old growth forests and communities is in serious jeopardy if we continue cutting our forests at the current rate.
This new forest framework calls for broadening the value of forests from a multitude of perspectives: from Indigenous reconciliation to creating good, long term jobs in value added harvesting and tourism, increasing carbon storage, ensuring clean drinking water, plus sustaining salmon and wildlife habitat.
The election of a new government provides a unique opportunity for a shift towards this new forest framework. This program will explore how we get there the urgency to make this shift.
The Wildwood/Ecoforest Institute Society team expands on their approach to nature-based forestry and how it, not only protects and restores ecosystem health, but can increase employment and community engagement. This webinar comes at a critical time for the forest management in British Columbia where protecting old growth is such a critical issue.
Links mentioned in this presentation:
Forest Framework Letter: creativelyunited.org/call-for-new-forest-framework
Old Growth panel report: engage.gov.bc.ca/oldgrowth
David Broadland article: focusonvictoria.ca/issue-analysis/35
What’s wrong with how forestry is practised in BC today?
Why are old growth forests so precious?
What are the solutions and implementation timelines?
Join Kathy Code, of the Ecoforestry Institute Society, and Jonathan O’Riordan, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, as they talk about the current model of forestry and the need to build a new approach to sustaining our forests, from the ground up.
The environmental health of our remaining old growth forests and communities is in serious jeopardy if we continue cutting our forests at the current rate.
This new forest framework calls for broadening the value of forests from a multitude of perspectives: from Indigenous reconciliation to creating good, long term jobs in value added harvesting and tourism, increasing carbon storage, ensuring clean drinking water, plus sustaining salmon and wildlife habitat.
The election of a new government provides a unique opportunity for a shift towards this new forest framework. This program will explore how we get there the urgency to make this shift.
The Wildwood/Ecoforest Institute Society team expands on their approach to nature-based forestry and how it, not only protects and restores ecosystem health, but can increase employment and community engagement. This webinar comes at a critical time for the forest management in British Columbia where protecting old growth is such a critical issue.
Links mentioned in this presentation:
Forest Framework Letter: creativelyunited.org/call-for-new-forest-framework
Old Growth panel report: engage.gov.bc.ca/oldgrowth
David Broadland article: focusonvictoria.ca/issue-analysis/35
