The document discusses the Spring 2012 issue of Private Forest Matters, highlighting the benefits of 'Show and Tell' tours organized by the Private Forest Landowners Association (PFLA) to educate participants on forest management. It includes wildfire prevention tips and promotes upcoming events such as their annual general meeting and a field tour focusing on sustainable forestry practices. Various communication tools and educational strategies are emphasized for fostering better understanding of private forest stewardship.

1. Private Forest
Matters Spring 2012 Issue Show and Tell Tour, see page 3
In This Issue
PFLA “Show and Tell Tours”
Want You! 1
10 Wildly Successful Wildfire
Prevention Tips 2
Out and About with PFLA 3
Save the Date! Private Forest
Landowners Association
Annual General Meeting 4
Domenico Iannidinardo (Manager of Resource and Environment Integration—TimberWest)
and Morgan Kennah (Manager of Sustainable Timberlands and Community Affairs—
PFLA Contact Island Timberlands) hand out information packages to tour participants.
Information PFLA “Show and Tell Tours”
Private Forest Landowners
Association (BC)
Want You!
Remember when you were in high school? A big part of learning was
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reading: books, so many books. History, ideas, theories—all communicated
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through words and images on paper.
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Maybe you were a straight-A student who devoured textbooks, wore
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out a pathway to the library and couldn’t wait for your next homework
www.pfla.bc.ca assignment.
Rod Bealing Maybe you were less enthusiastic about book learning, spent more time
Executive Director navel gazing and expressed your creativity through the wild excuses you
Private Forest Landowners conjured to explain why your homework wasn’t done.
Association
Regardless of where you landed on the spectrum of classroom participation,
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every now and again, an opportunity arose that engaged everyone.
Ina Shah
Yes. You guessed it, the ever-popular field trip.
Office Manager
Private Forest Landowners
Association
info@pfla.bc.ca >> Continued on page 3
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2. 10 Wildly Successful Wildfire
Prevention Tips
Fire season is upon us. Wildfire You and your crew should have
poses a serious threat to forest access to an inventory of appro-
management objectives. Here at the priate fire management resources
PFLA, we promote best management and equipment:
practices (BMPs) that help minimize · Hand tools
potential risks and maximize forest
health. · Pumps
Here are 10 wildly successful tips · Retardants
to help prevent, and in the event · Water supplies
that it happens, be prepared for,
· Tanker trucks
wildfires.
5. Know how to get to your water.
1. Have a plan. Like most things Make sure you have clear access
in life, having a plan can seri- to your water source. If a winter
ously mitigate the harm caused wind knocked over a tree that
by unexpected events. Develop a now obstructs your ability to get
written or verbal fire prevention to your pond, this is a problem.
and management plan, appropri-
ate to the level of fire risk and 6. Know when not to operate. 8. Manage your forest’s fuel load.
hazard on your property. Monitor weather conditions and Fires need fuel to burn. Consider
during high-risk seasons avoid seasonally appropriate prescribed
2. Know your trouble spots. Being activities that cause sparks: burning to minimize forest debris.
aware of potential problem areas
can actually help reduce the risk · Fires 9. Nobody cares about your land
of problems arising. Take stock. · Machines as much as you do. Restrict pub-
Have a clear inventory of low and lic access during periods of high
· Equipment and extreme fire risk. According
high-risk areas on your property.
· Chain saws to Smokey Bear, 9 out of 10 forest
3. Be prepared. Ensure operational
fires are caused by human beings.
personnel are adequately trained · Cigarettes
and equipped to conduct safe and 10. Report wildfires immediately.
7. Know thy neighbour. Consider
effective fire suppression duties. Perhaps this goes without say-
a cooperative fire management
ing, but in case it doesn’t, report
4. Have the right tools. Knowing strategy with nearby neighbours.
wildfires immediately to the
what to do is one thing, having Cooperating can reduce costs
appropriate authorities.
the proper equipment is another. while increasing efficiency and
person-power.
Out and About with the PFLA
Foresters of the Future PFLA Hometown Meetings Coastal Invasive Plant
PFLA was pleased to present our We’re delighted to announce the Committee AGM and Forum
annual “Foresters of the Future” PFLA Hometown Tour was a roaring PFLA looks forward to attending the
lecture series to a class of enthu- success, and we’re gushingly grate- CIPC’s 7th annual general meeting
siastic young forestry students at ful to all of you who took the time and forum, June 7, 2012 (10 a.m. to
Vancouver Island University— to join us. As chuffed as we are with 4 p.m.), at Royal Roads University.
yet another excellent opportunity our communication tools these days, This year’s theme, Vectors of Spread,
to educate and inform about the nothing beats in-person, face-to-face includes: hands-on workshops, local
stewardship of BC’s private man- conversation for understanding expert knowledge, café-style dia-
aged forests. what matters to you. Thanks also logue and more. Spread the word,
to everyone who responded to our not the weeds!
newsletter survey.
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3. Morgan Kennah explains Island Timberlands’ Fish habitat is protected by retaining streamside trees and restricting management activities in
salvage operation and hazard abatement the riparian zone.
programs to Private Managed Forest Land
Council executive director, Stuart McPherson.
PFLA Show and Tell Tours >> Cont’d from page 1
The rare moment when you, and “Show and Tell Forest Tours”, as we
your classmates, buoyed by the like to call them, are a staple of the
promise of somewhere new, piled PFLA communications program.
onto a yellow school bus and Most recently, forestry experts from
bounced your way to a never- Island Timberlands and TimberWest
before-visited destination. took the Private Forest Managed
Forests, First Nations, marine Land Council on a tour of their
biology, whatever the subject, it Shawnigan and Koksilah (respec-
suddenly came alive. The abstract tively) operating areas. While this
world of textbooks brought to life trip focused on two of our larger,
Private Managed Forest Land Council through the tactile experience of active owners, we’re already plan-
members study information used in the sensing, feeling, seeing, real things ning our next tour to highlight one
assessment, planning and implementation of in real life. of our smaller forest owners.
forest management activities. Detailed data
marks tree height values, forest retention It turns out, of all the commu- We can’t emphasize enough what
areas, fish-bearing streams, riparian zones, nication tools PFLA has at our a valuable tool these field trips are
biodiversity, and terrain hazard stability. disposal—events, presentations, in helping people understand our
networking, Facebook, Twitter, commitment to the stewardship of
newsletters, website, blog posts, BC’s private forests.
briefings—the most valuable com- If you’re a managed forest owner
munication tool in the shed is the interested in hosting a tour, or if
ever-popular, time-tested field trip. you’re a stakeholder interested in
Taking key audiences—elected visiting a managed forest, let us
officials, government staff, know. We’d love to have you
regulatory agencies, media folks, participate. Give us a call
interested community members— (250-381-7565) or send us an
into the woods and showing them, email (info@pfla.bc.ca).
firsthand, how we manage our To see more field tour photos,
private forest land is the most effec-
Domenico Iannidinardo, Manager of Resource visit the PFLA Facebook page
and Environment Integration (TimberWest), tive form of communication we’ve (www.facebook.com/PFLABC).
describes the process for designing and installing come across yet.
a permanent bridge structure built in 2005.
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4. A group photo as PFLA presents Ken Robertson with the Private Forest Stewardship Award
during last year’s AGM field tour to Van Isle Tree Farm near Sooke, B.C.
Save the Date!
PFLA AGM and Forest Field
Tour—June 20–21, 2012
Plans for the 2012 Private Forest contributions that individual
Landowners Association AGM, field forest owners make to overall
tour and private forestry forum are forest stewardship excellence in
well under way and we’re pumped the province.
about how things are shaping up. The Rudi Kind Memorial
The two-day event will be held, June Scholarship established in 2003
20–21, 2012, at the Four Points by to celebrate the memory of
Sheraton, in stunning Langford, BC. founding PFLA member, and
Here’s a taste of what you can look long-serving director, Rudi Kind.
forward to: We hope to encourage and
Day-long forest field tour promote a future of natural
focusing on: resource management that
Bio-energy reflects the same passion and
thoughtfulness Rudi brought to
Invasive species his career.
Innovative forest management
Private forestry forum including:
practices
Carbon credits
Evening banquet reception Climate change
featuring:
Firefighting cost-sharing
The Private Forest Stewardship Visit us online. Let us
agreements
Award recognizing a managed know what you think.
forest owner for outstanding Update from the Private
commitment to, and dem- Managed Forest Land Council. YouTube:
onstration of, private forest All that and more! Stay-tuned for www.youtube.com/user/PFLABC
stewardship in British Columbia. registration and scheduling details. Facebook:
The award acknowledges, See you there! www.facebook.com/PFLABC
and celebrates, the exemplary
Blog:
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