#894: Healthy Landscapes Program: Workshops
There’s a quiet revolution taking place in forest science.
It’s called ecosystem based management.
Over the last two decades, forest ecologists have looked at ways to harvest the forest that work with nature rather than against it.
Dr David Andison leads the Healthy Landscapes Program for fRI Research.
The program is hosting a series of public workshops to discuss these new ideas about forest sustainability.
DR DAVID ANDISON: it became clear starting about 3 or 4 years ago, that the science wasn’t enough. We were doing some really good science with the relationships between disturbance and climate and goods and services – we were starting to really understand some major pieces of that. So what we really have to do if we’re going to make any further progress and understanding the potential of EBM, we have to go back and understand where the pinch points. And so the dialogue sessions are designed to try to understand better where people are agreeing with this idea and where they’re not.
There is a Healthy Landscapes workshop in Grande Prairie on September 12, followed by more in Calgary and Edmonton.
Thanks today to the Healthy Landscapes Program at fRI Research
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The Healthy Landscapes Program, formerly known as the Natural Disturbance Program, looks at landscape change at a huge scale, such as Canada’s boreal forest.
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The workshops in Athabasca, Grande Prairie, Calgary and Edmonton are an invitation to people interested in forest sustainability and healthy landscapes to contribute their experiences with the forest and with ecosystem based management.
A dialogue is different in that it is about sharing experiences and perspectives in a way that fosters discussion and the generation of new ideas.
Forest management has never been simple. However, the introduction of a new idea like ecosystem- based management (EBM) has complicated things to the point where it has become di cult to identify the source(s) of either support or opposition. This makes it extremely difficult to have a meaningful conversation about challenges and opportunities of a new idea like EBM.
Through professionally-facilitated sessions, the Healthy Landscapes Program at fRI Research will openly explore the barriers and opportunities to applying ecosystem-based management in Alberta.
Information gained from these workshops will be collated and analyzed in preparation for a report with recommendations on further implementation of Ecosystem Based Management.
The Healthy Landscapes Program is supported by fRI Research with 25 industry and government partners across several provinces and territories.
Program Date: 2017-09-07