Changes to Board Membership Announced
By Darlene Oman
VICTORIA – Cabinet has made a number of appointments to the Forest Practices Board. Tim Ryan will be staying on as chair of the board for a second term. Ryan has issued the following statements upon the appointment of Ken Higginbotham to the board, and the re-appointment of current members Marlene Machmer and Norma Wilson: “I am very pleased to have Ken Higginbotham join us at the board. Ken is best known in B.C. for his role as vice-president of forestry with Canfor Corporation. Before that he was an assistant deputy minister and a research branch director with the Alberta government’s forestry department and a forestry professor at the University of Alberta. Since 2015, Ken has chaired the BC Forest Safety Council and will continue in that role.”
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