Project Title: Northeast BC Wildland Fire Training Recipient: Northeast BC Prescribed Fire Council Region: Northeast Project Period: 2025 Awarded Amount: $10,000 Description: This project will aim to train and mentor more than 20 local rights holders, stakeholders, and marginalized peoples in wildland fire with an…

Project Title: Old growth attributes and best management practices pamphlet Recipient: Woodlots BC Region: Provincial Project Period: 2025-2026 Awarded Amount: $8,500 Description: The project is to provide information on old forest attributes and best management tools to maintain resilient old forest attributes within a harvest…

Project Title: Northeast BC Prescribed Fire Planning in an Eco-cultural Pyric Herbivory Context Recipient: Shifting Mosaics Corporation Region: Northeast Theme(s): “A burn a day can help keep wildfire away” Awarded Amount: $50,000 Project period: 2025 Description: This project aims to mobilize traditional and local ecological knowledge…

Project Title: Comparative Review of Pre-harvest Understory Thinning in IDF on Post-harvest Residual Retention and Fuel Loading, within Partial-harvested Stands Recipient: Stswecem’c Xget’tem Development Corporation (SXDC) Region: Cariboo and Thompson-Okanagan Theme(s): “Thin it to win it” Awarded Amount: $50,000 Project period: 2025-2026 Description: This project plans…

Project Title: Restoration of industrial conifer plantations to recover ecosystem integrity Recipient: Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, University of British Columbia Region: Cariboo and Mainland/Southwest Theme(s): “Old-like in a new light”, “Thin it to win it” Awarded Amount: $50,000 Project period: 2025-2027 Description: This project addresses restoration…

Project Title: Cost and efficacy of combining understory resilience treatments with sawlog harvesting operations in the Dry-Belt Douglas-fir Recipient: Clinton Community Forest Region: Cariboo Theme(s): “Thin it to win it”; “Beyond the sawlog” Awarded Amount: $50,000 Project period: 2025-2026 Description: Uneven-aged forests of the dry interior…

Project Title: Harvesting Systems Workshop: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. What is the alternative? Recipient: Woodlots BC Regions: Thompson/Okanagan & Kootenay Awarded Amount: $15,000 Project Period: 2025-2026 Description: The project is a workshop held in conjunction with the 2025 Woodlot Conference.…

Project Title: Monitoring & Extension of Partial Harvests in Wetzin’kwa Community Forest Recipient:  Sybille Haeussler Region: North Coast & Nechako Project Period: 2025-2027 Awarded Amount: $10,000 Description: Existing and new partial harvests are located in sub-boreal (SBS) and transitional (ICH/ESSF) ecosystems of northwest BC, drawing…

Project Title: Stswecem’c Xget’tem Forest Gathering & Tending Recipient:  Stswecem’c Xget’tem Development Corporation (SXDC) Region: Cariboo Awarded Amount: $12,409 Project Period: 2025 Description: In recent decades, Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation (SXFN) members have lost access to gathering sites for foods and medicines near community due…

Project Title: Building Relationships, Braiding Knowledge Recipient: Spel’kúmtn Community Forest Region: Mainland/Southwest Awarded Amount: $15,000 Project Period: 2025 Description: Through this project, Spel’kúmtn Community Forest and Líl’wat Lands Department are hoping to build greater synergy between the foresters, who come from Western scientific ways…