The University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Forestry presents a new series called “Notes From the Field”, which highlights the work of different community forests. Check out the latest Notes From the Field below! If your community forest wishes to be featured in this publication series, please contact Deborah DeLong at deborah.delong@ubc.ca
Community Forests identified three priorities for future wildfire management, including refocusing management with a ‘fire lens,’ managing fire (including prescribed and cultural burning) for landscape resilience, and scaling up collaboration to the landscape level. The report recognizes the contributions of community forests as leaders in addressing wildfire risk around communities and lays out four recommendations. We are deeply grateful to the authors of the report for their efforts and we look forward to furthering this important work together. read more
Prepared by David Haley for the April 15-17, 2004 Revelstoke B.C. BCCFA Conference – Community Forests: Opportunities and Practices, Link to the report
Tahia’s paper draws upon the community forest experience in BC, gained over 20 years. Her findings show the work CFAs are doing to take a more holistic, long-term approach to enhance the resilience of forested landscapes. Based on interviews with managers of 5 case study community forests and the BCCFA Indicators survey of member CFs over three consecutive years, she presents pilot practices to manage forests for resilience at the stand- and landscape levels. This is an important paper and shows how CFAs are innovating for the future. Read more
This report provides the findings of an economic analysis of community forests in BC completed in 2015 by the Southern Interior Beetle Action Coalition. The purpose of this analysis was to quantify the cumulative, historical economic contributions of community forests to rural communities in BC.
This guide is designed to provide community forests with the information needed to make informed decisions about the management and use of non-timber forest resources (NTFRs) in community forests.
A Guide to the Assessment of Non-Timber Forest Resources on Community Forests
For a comprehensive analysis of the development of community forestry in British Columbia we recommend this 2002 report by Dr. David Haley.
Community Forests in British Columbia: The past is prologue
An overview of the work of community forest managers in BC. A report to the BC Community Forest Association by Meike Siegner, UBC Faculty of Forestry, March 2019
