Old growth attributes and best management practices pamphlet

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 unit. The final product is pamphlets outlining attributes and best management practices to use operationally. Woodlots BC will also provide background information and links to other resources on their website.

HALFWAY Report:

The following is based on final reporting by the grantee.

February 10, 2026

The project is completed. The goal was to have the pamphlets printed by the Woodlots BC Conference in October. The pamphlets arrived at our doorstep the day before we were leaving for Osoyoos. The flipbooks were printed in Germany and took some time clearing customs in Vancouver.

The flipbook was part of a project undertaken by Woodlots BC and has an accompanying website with articles and research information being added over time. We have included an introduction article written for our members introducing our Resilient Ecosystems project.

Over time we will have an article for every flip tab in the book that will be on our website, published in the Almanac and sent out via our weekly email.

The pamphlet had a very positive response and the information within it was actually spoken about through a number of the speakers without any coordination. The information is timely and needed as we continuously learn to be better woodlot caretakers.

We have had a local major licensee reach out asking if they can get some printed for their contractors, each of the woodlot regional reps left with less than a box after the conference. I thought that the 550 flipbooks I had printed would last quite some time (and was worried I’d have boxes left over for years to come). We are now asking people to not throw them out, but rather pass them on!

The experience was very valuable. The committee was full of keen woodlotters, scattered from across the province. The designer is located in Vanderhoof and as a biologist turned designer was quite able to take our ideas and turn them into succinct tabs in the flipbook. This was very much a literature review and the website will back up the information in the flipbook when people want to see the original papers.