BCCFA Member, Quesnel, wants an incubator

Quesnel Mayor Bob Simpson is in the Lower Mainland this week, working to follow up on Quesnel’s Forestry Think Tank session, which tool place May 3-4 2018 at Quesnel’s North Cariboo Community Campus. The Think Tank saw around 70 forestry sector professionals, as well as the Honourable Doug Donaldson from the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resources Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD), descend on Quesnel to explore opportunities to use the city as an “incubator” to accelerate research and development in the domains of alternative forest management and innovative manufacturing and processing of forest fibre.  Simpson said that today, he will be visiting the University of British Columbia to tour FPInnovations’ lab. FPInnovations is a not-for-profit that researches and creates solutions for the Canadian forest sector. Simpson says he will discuss options for the reinvention of Quesnel’s forestry sector. Two of the panelists at the Forestry Think Tank session were from FPInnovations.