Full House at Knowledge Transfer Session in Houston

March 20, 2007

Some 60 people attended a knowledge transfer session held at the Houston Senior’s Centre on March 2, 2007 . The session – the fourth such event held since 2001 - focussed on M&L IFPA project work that was completed by consultants and partners in the 2005/2006 fiscal year. The purpose of KT sessions is to share new knowledge on IFPA-funded innovative forest management projects to the natural resource management community in the region.

Those in attendance included representatives from the consulting community, First Nations, licensees, provincial government ministries, and IFPA public advisory groups. Participants enjoyed presentations in the subject areas of planning, collaboration, silviculture and wildlife management.

“It was a full room,” said M&L IFPA communications coordinator Ritchie Morrison. “Based on audience interaction with the presenters, and on the number of printed technical summaries taken home by participants, there was a lot of interest in this work.”

Click on the links below to view PDF versions of the presentations:

• The Lakes Sustainable Forest Management Plan - PDF 256 KB (Dwight Crouse, Tesera Systems)
• The M&L IFPA Mountain Pine Beetle Mitigation Scenario: Description & Outcomes - PDF 247 KB (Dwight Crouse, Tesera Systems)
• Collaboration: Lakes TSA Sustainable Resource Management Plan Objectives - PDF 260 KB (Laura Bolster, ILMB)
• Multi-Block Silviculture Standards in the Morice Timber Supply Area ( Larry McCulloch, LM Forest Resource Solutions Ltd. )
• The Response of Caribou Terrestrial Forage Lichens to Mountain Pine Beetle and Forest Harvesting in the East Ootsa and Entiako areas - PDF 2.6 MB ( Debbie Cichowski, Caribou Ecological Consulting; Patrick Williston, Gentian Botanical Research)
• Using Northern Goshawks as effectiveness indicators to evaluate Sustainable Forest Management strategies and targets - PDF 3.3 MB ( Frank Doyle, Wildlife Dynamics)
• Movement and Habitat Use of Non-Alpine Mountain Goats - PDF 1.7 MB ( Laurence Turney, Gartner Lee)
• Permanent Access Assessment in the Morice Timber Supply Area - PDF 132 MB (Dusty Meierhofer, Timberline)