Recent workforce trends and their effects on the silviculture program in British Columbia

John Betts

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Recent workforce trends and their effects on the silviculture program in British Columbia

Informally Refereed

Authors:

John Betts

Year:

2008

Type:

Proceedings

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Dumroese, R. K.; Riley, L. E., tech. coords. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007. Proc. RMRS-P-57. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 164-165

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Abstract

British Columbia's entrepreneurial silviculture sector provides a reliable just-in-time service delivery of forestry activities from planting trees to fighting wildfires. Transient, and seeming to rely often on improvisation, contractors actually run logistically sophisticated businesses that are able to match varying field conditions to the biological and administrative imperatives of their forest company and government clients. The sector has adapted well to keeping up with the next surprise.

Parent Publication

National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007

Keywords

workforce trends, silviculture, British Columbia

Citation

Betts, John. 2008. Recent workforce trends and their effects on the silviculture program in British Columbia. In: Dumroese, R. K.; Riley, L. E., tech. coords. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007. Proc. RMRS-P-57. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 164-165