Our Purpose

BC’s forests are symbols of resilience, legacy, and diversity. But their future lies at a crossroads. With impacted timber supplies, a changing climate, and mounting concerns from many groups, including the forestry sector, there is a shift happening to manage forests for multiple values and embrace an ecologically-centred approach. Using alternative and innovative approaches to forestry, we can help ensure BC forests continue to provide values and services that will support communities for generations to come.

What is innovative silviculture? It includes systems for the harvesting, growing and tending of forests where the primary objective is to achieve holistic stewardship of the land base. Innovative silviculture systems are driven by an appreciation of ecological, social, cultural, and economic values of forests, where stewardship is focused on maintaining dynamic ecosystem processes and functions.

Our vision is that the Silviculture Innovation Program will accelerate the growth of innovative silviculture by improving knowledge of these systems in British Columbia using research and extension.