Monitoring & Extension of Partial Harvests in Wetzin’kwa Community Forest

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 on cumulative knowledge since the 1950s. The project integrates monitoring data from the 1990s with new data gathered since 2022. The project will connect retired practitioners & scientists who championed partial harvest (1980-2020s) with today’s practitioners & scientists. Located in the Wetzin’kwa Community Forest, the project updates and expands an existing Partial Harvest Demonstration Forest. Learnings will be shared informally (through mentorship and joint fieldwork by retired foresters and biologists, young practitioners, harvest operators and researchers), and formally (through written guidance on how to retain old forest values during partial harvest, project reports posted on the BVRC Data Hub, field tour(s) of old & new partial harvest, and updated interpretive signage in the Bulkley Valley Nordic & Demo Forest trail network.