Recommended Reading

Society of American Foresters (SAF) Task Force on Sustaining Long-Term Forest Health and Productivity

Dave Perry, Fred Swanson, and Jerry Franklin 2

ABSTRACT: Intensive forest management maximizes fiber yields, at least in the short run, but at the cost of aesthetics, habitat, and perhaps long-term ecosystem stability. new approaches produce an array of market and non-market values by managing to preserve natural diversity. Some elements of this include: retention of dead wood and non-crop plant species, growing trees at wide spacings, longer rotations, and creating diverse, un-fragmented landscapes. Specific techniques will vary with objectives and forest type.

The “Great Bear Rainforest” agreement announced by the provincial government in April between environmental organizations, First Nations communities, and forestry companies working on the north-central coast heralded an environmental coup, the reverberations of which will challenge the B.C. forest industry.

by Michael Maser
Originally published in the Georgia Straight, August 29, 2001

In 1998 various claims began to be made in forestry circles in British Columbia that our forests were growing faster than previously thought. This paper was commissioned by the New Perspectives Forestry Society to find out if there was any substance to these claims.

A Report Prepared by
O. R. Travers, R.P.F.
for the New Perspectives Forestry Society
June 20, 2000

A new wave of value-added wood manufacturers has come up with ways to slip underneath the softwood tariff radar and get to the coveted U.S. market

Lyle Jenish
National Post
Thursday, October 24, 2002

Publishing online for more than ten years, VCR continues to support innovative value-created furniture manufacturing in Canada and beyond. If "we are what we eat" applies to us as individuals, then VCR takes the view that as a society "we are what we make."

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