Loading ...It was good to hear at 20:47 from someone who had on-the-ground experience trying to implement the Forest Practices Code of the 1990’s. Your comments were appreciated. I had no direct experience to observe how the Forest Practices Code was implemented and what it meant for operators responsible for forest management, harvesting and regeneration. Our only involvement with the Code was the 1995 “Seed and vegetative material guidebook” which we relied on when we co-authored ‘Ecology and Management of Sitka Spruce’. We did not work directly with Keith Illingworth but we consulted the results of his 1978 report, ‘Sitka spruce trials three years after planting in British Columbia’.
Considering that your re-measurements of your Sitka spruce plantings were probably fed into Keith’s work, it is a small world that we should end up communicating electronically here on a forestry topic 25 or 30 years later. You also mentioned that your spruce trials were coordinated out of Kalamalka Forestry Centre. Our connection with Kalamalka was not in relation to Sitka spruce but instead with Mike Carlson in 1996 when he provided a photograph for our preparation of ‘Black Cottonwood Managers’ Handbook for British Columbia’.
Keep your trees healthy in your part of the province. Cheers. Equiz.