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Building a community of practice that shares ideas, insights, and experiences for advancing effective and efficient restoration in northern B. C. Who is a Restoration Practitioner Anyone interested in the delivery of a restoration project, including professionals, academics, authorities, First Nations, stakeholders, funders, partners, governmental and non-governmental groups, and individuals interested in restoration.

The aim of this community of practice is to create an open forum to discuss wildland fire and fuel management, share knowledge, find solutions, and develop new ideas. Representatives of FPBC and BC Wildfire Service provide updates on the regulation of the practice of professional forestry and the management of wildland fire and fuels during meetings.

The Ecological Restoration program offers specialized training in high-level ecosystem functioning and is designed for practitioners working in restoration and related environmental fields that see problems with current practices and want to investigate alternative and innovative solutions. This program develops critical thinking skills and asks challenging questions that require students to deal with the uncertainty that is present with problems in ecological restoration. Upon completion of this program, students will be able to conduct detailed site assessments and restoration projects that pay special attention to the unique conditions and challenges presented by built and otherwise highly altered environments.

Presented from both Indigenous and western perspectives, the online program provides a unique learning opportunity that combines knowledge of western fire science and Indigenous ways of knowing with landscape and fire ecology and social sciences to address a vital need for professional training in the increasingly complex area of wildfire management.

This interactive and self-paced short course is delivered through four e-learning modules. It is designed for anyone who wants to learn more about climate change, providing concepts, case studies, and perspectives with a focus on the B. C. context, aiming to enhance understanding and promote ideas for climate action.

This paper introduces walking on two legs, an Indigenous framework for ecosystem restoration and reconciliation in fire-adapted landscapes, particularly in Western Canada. The concept advocates for balancing Indigenous knowledges with Western scientific knowledge, ensuring that Indigenous perspectives and stewardship ethics guide the interconnected processes of restoration and reconciliation. The authors argue that genuine reconciliation requires Indigenous-led restoration of lands, knowledges, and cultures, moving beyond simply integrating Indigenous knowledge into existing Western frameworks. This approach aims to rebuild respectful relationships between people and the land, addressing the legacies of colonialism and revitalizing Indigenous practices like fire stewardship.

This paper highlights the crucial role of boundary spanners in addressing the escalating challenge of wildfires in Western Canada. These individuals and organizations bridge critical gaps, spanning different knowledge systems, organizations, and geographical areas, to foster collaboration and implement proactive fire management strategies, such as cultural and prescribed burning. The authors emphasize that despite the vital work of boundary spanners in building trust, sharing knowledge, and developing capacity, their contributions are often undervalued and lack sufficient institutional support. The piece concludes by asserting the urgent need for dedicated investment in boundary spanning roles to effectively integrate diverse expertise and facilitate collaborative, equitable solutions for wildfire management.

This presentation focuses on managing forests for resilience as a crucial method for achieving both forest sustainability and value. It begins by establishing the importance of resilience in the context of forestry, defining it across ecological, engineering, and social-ecological perspectives, and distinguishing between general and disturbance-specific resilience. The presentation then explores how to promote resilient forests, emphasizing the role of diversity, complexity, and understanding ecological systems. Through case studies and management principles, it demonstrates practical ways to enhance forest resilience at various spatial scales, acknowledging the inherent trade-offs in managing for future uncertainties like fire, insects, drought, and climate change.

Forestry Together is an alliance of representatives from across Canada who have come together to positively impact equity, diversity, and inclusion in the forest sector. Our goal is to build meaningful inclusion of sector employees and focus on increasing equity for all. Forestry Together aims to achieve meaningful inclusion for current and future employees and is focused on increasing equity for all people, including Indigenous Peoples, visible minorities, women, 2SLGBTQI+, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada.

Women in Wood was created to bring together passionate women from across Canada and around the world to share their love for the woods. Whether you work in the woods, with wood, or for the woods, WIW provides a networking opportunity to help you find mentors, seek career advice, or meet other passionate women. Objectives: 1) Build a community of women who work with, in and for the woods. 2) Encourage women to pursue careers in the forest, wood and related sectors. 3) Help Women in Wood succeed in their career goals by collaborating for success, sharing information, improving skills, and navigating the workplace.

The Consortium's mission is to Engage with all members of the wildland fire ecosystem; Connect knowledge holders, generators and users; and Accelerate innovation in wildland fire management using a whole-of-society approach. The Wildfire Resilience Consortium of Canada aims to unify the elements to create a transformative approach to wildfire management for the country and beyond. Through the place-based knowledge mobilization network, the technology and innovation accelerator and a core focus on Indigenous fire stewardship and long term land management, WRCC will be the bridge that leads us to enchanced resilience against wildfires. The WRCC's approach is holistic, collaborative, and adaptive, ensuring that Canada is better prepared for and resilient to the growing wildfire threat.

SFI's mission is to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaboration. As an independent, non-profit organization, we collaborate with our diverse network to help address local and global sustainability challenges. SFI works with the forest sector, brand owners, conservation groups, resource professionals, landowners, educators, local communities, Indigenous Peoples, governments, and universities.

FSC Canada is a non-profit membership organization that certifies over 200 million hectares of forest worldwide. FSC's responsible forestry standard, linked to a strict chain of custody certification, is a proven nature-based solution to tackle today's climate and biodiversity challenges. That is why we are trusted by environmental groups, NGOs, consumers, and businesses alike.

The Free to Grow in Forestry initiative aims to achieve gender equality and meaningful inclusion of equity-deserving groups at all levels from technical to executive level positions in the forest sector. The initiative is an unprecedented collaboration that was launched in 2018 as a result of the Gender Equity in Canada's Forest Sector National Action Plan Initiative, spearheaded by the Canadian Institute of Forestry and the Centre for Social Intelligence, with strategic guidance from the National Steering Committee of forest sector leaders. They provide tools to help support positive workplace culture, including learning modules.

The Canadian Institute of Forestry Institut forestier du Canada is a not-for-profit, member-based organization. Founded in 1908, the CIF-IFC is the oldest forest society in Canada, serving as the voice of forest practitioners representing foresters, forest technologists and technicians, ecologists, biologists, educators and many others with an interest in forests and forestry. The CIF mission is to provide national leadership in forestry and forest stewardship, promote competency among forest practitioners, and foster public awareness and education of forest and forestry issues.

Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges and cooperative burns provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers fire practitioners a more holistic perspectivea?\"while implementing treatments that support community and landscape objectives. TREX provides a unique cooperative burning model that services the needs of a variety of entities, including federal and state agencies, private landowners and contractors, tribes, academics, and international partnersa?\"while incorporating local values and issues to build the right kinds of capacity in the right places. Most TREX events take place in the spring or fall, when conditions are mostly likely to be good for safe and effective prescribed burning.

This learning resource outlines how forest practices are assessed to ensure they maintain or enhance the supply of economically valuable commercial timber. Using the Stand Development Protocol, the program evaluates previously harvested areas for tree species diversity, forest productivity, and health. It compares stands harvested before and after December 2005 to determine the effectiveness of forest regeneration practices. Supporting materials include detailed protocols and field cards for monitoring stand development and stump identification.

The target audience for this course includes silviculture surveyors, contract administrators and personnel involved with the creation of silviculture plans and prescriptions for multi-storey stands.