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NATIONAL FOREST WEEKS E P T E M B E R 2 1 S T - 2 7 T H
C A N A D AP U B L I S H E D B Y T H E
M E R R I T T H E R A L D
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MINISTER’S MESSAGE
As Minister of For-ests, Lands and Natu-ral Resource Opera-tions, I’m looking forward to celebrating National Forest Week, Sept. 21 to 27.
This year’s theme, Sunrise in the For-est, not only speaks to the natural beauty of B.C.’s forests, but the resiliency of the forest sector. Since the downturn of 2009, B.C.’s forest economy has been steadily recovering.
From 2009 to 2013, timber harvesting has increased 47 per cent, the value of B.C.’s forest product exports increased by 53 per cent to a total of $11.6 billion and employment increased by 13 per cent, pro-viding 58,000 direct jobs throughout the province.
In 2009, govern-ment introduced the Wood First Act to require that wood be considered as a pri-mary building material in public sector con-struction, and 53 local governments, includ-ing Merritt, have fol-lowed suit by adopting Wood First bylaws, policies or resolutions of their own. And earlier this year, the Merritt Green Energy Project confirmed its
financing. The new 40-megawatt power plant will generate power from sawmill waste and roadside logging debris. Bioen-ergy projects like this showcase innovation and how what was once considered waste is now a source of power.
To ensure we have forests for future generations to enjoy, companies are legally required to reforest the areas they harvest. While an average of 200 million seedlings are planted each year, in 2014, we managed to plant over 240 mil-lion. We manage our forests for 11 differ-ent values, including provisions for wildlife habitat, cultural heri-tage, biodiversity and recreation.
The provincial National Forest Week coalition has also produced a Tree Identification App. It will be available for download from www.abcfp.ca/about_us/events/national_for-est_week.asp on Sept. 22. The app provides photos and informa-tion on every native tree found in B.C., and also allows you to take photos and record notes and GPS the location of your favourite trees.
I encourage you to take the time to enjoy and learn more about B.C.’s forests this National Forest Week.
Steve ThomsonMinister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
HONOURABLE STEVE THOMSONMinistry of FORESTS
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SUNRISE IN THE FOREST The sun breaks through the trees near Lac Le Jeune at daybreak on Sept. 7. Photo submitted by Ezequiel Chernikoff
Adaptation key to long-time logger’s success
If you ask longtime Merritt logger Roy Brown, adaptation in his industry is essential.
Brown has spent the past 50 years in Mer-ritt logging for Tolko Industries with his company ML Brown Lumber Ltd.
In that time, the 89-year-old has seen his industry change completely.
“The logging industry’s altogether different than it was 30 years ago,” Brown said.
“You just blend in with the changes as they come.”
About 10 years before logging for Tolko, Brown was log-ging in the Merritt area with just a single piece of machinery.
“When I got my CAT [bulldozer], I started logging for a fellow who had a portable sawmill, and he liked the way I did things, so he sold me the portable sawmill. And away we went for eight years,” Brown
said.He said the portable
sawmill soon became out of style.
“The mills got big-ger and took over. A lot of the big mills now, they were just small mills,” he said.
It was at that point Brown had to adapt to
changes in the indus-try, and he soon started his own company and began logging for Tolko.
“It’s always been about adapting,” he said.
Born in California, Brown was raised in Canada. At age
nine, his family moved to Homestead, Alta. He spent almost four years in the Canadian Navy as a stoker first class during peak the wartime years of 1942 to 1945 before he was discharged.
He even lied about his age to get into the navy, saying he was 18 even though he was two months shy of his seventeenth birthday.
Brown first started logging with his dad out at Adams Lake just after the Second World War.
This was during a time when the job was done by hand, using horses to haul the logs out of the brush, as opposed to the machinery that domi-nates the industry now.
“Everything was done by hand – every-thing. No power saws,” Brown said, recalling a time when two men would hold each end of a manual saw, mov-ing back and forth to chop down trees.
“Now it’s done with a great, big machine.”
By Michael PotestioTHE HERALD
See ‘Mechanization’ Page B4
Roy Brown has been logging in the Merritt area for over 50 years. Michael Potestio/Herald
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WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN The sun sets over the forest at Cabin Lake. Emily Wessel/Herald
Mechanization a major change over the years
Although the industry is now fully mechanized, Brown said change didn’t just happen overnight.
“It don’t just change all of a sudden,” he said of the tran-sition from the old horse log-ging days to today’s machine-driven industry.
“One blended into the other, just like anything else. New trucks, new cars; they’re all different, but you don’t know what you’re going to get until you get it.”
He said adapting to chang-es in the industry for him has been automatic.
When it comes to the logging business, it’s a fam-ily affair for Brown. He has worked side-by side with his son Donald for decades. Brown had three sons of which Donald is the only surviving one. He works as the supervisor of the company.
Brown even has four grand-sons who work for the company.
He said there are pros and cons to having a family business. The pro?
“You’re glad you got a family that can stay with you all these years,” he said. “The bad part is … you couldn’t fire one if you wanted to,” Brown joked.
“Not that I want to.”Brown said his wife
Anne has played a large part in the business over the years.
When asked why he hasn’t retired yet, Brown said retirement has noth-ing to offer him.
“I don’t see nothing to enjoy in retirement,” he said.
“I’m not a golfer. Never had time to
learn,” he said.“I’m lucky I can be
alive and doing what I’m doing.”
From Page B3
Logger Roy Brown spent a few years in the Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Photo submitted
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The Merritt National Forest Week Committee
would like to thank all participants that entered the Mike Morrison Memorial Bursary - 2014
The Candidates were judged on Community Involvement and Volunteer History
as well as written essay submissions.
We look forward to the 2015 participants
Congratulations to Terrell Balan
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Proud to acknowledge our National Forest WeekSept. 22 - 28
250-378-2929The Canadian For-
estry Association will be celebrating 2014 National Forest Week this year from Sept. 21 to 27 with the goal of increasing Canadians’ awareness of their for-est heritage.
This year, National Forest Week is focusing on its theme Sunrise in the Forest. The theme aims to recognize the bright future of our forest industry and how it has adapted to operate as a high-tech, innovative and green
industry that offers many career oppor-tunities for British Columbians.
Forestry is an important industry in Fraser-Nicola that provides good, solid family-supporting jobs that enable people to stay, work and raise their families in their home communities.
In B.C., the forestry and logging industry employs 14,000 people with the majority of the opportunities in the Interior regions of the province.
Occupations include harvesting equipment operators, logging and forestry labour technologists, and technicians involved in conserva-tion and protection activities. Ninety-two per cent of positions are full-time and ben-
efit from higher-than-average wage rates compared to other industries.
To celebrate National Forest Week this year, I suggest you get to know your forest, tour a forest sector industry pro-cessing site, arrange a tree planting or learn about organizations
that demonstrate sus-tainable forest man-agement.
During National Forest Week, I am pleased to acknowl-edge all who work in the forest industry and those who support our forest workers.
Jackie TegartMLA, Fraser-Nicola
JACKIE TEGARTView from the LEGISLATURE
Get to know your forest: MLA Jackie Tegart
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Cascades District StaffSalute all the hard working
men and women who make upthe Forest industry.
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There once was a time when surveying a newly logged piece of timber required an individual to physically walk and examine the land, but our times are changing.
I am part of a generation of technology-consumed individuals who are unaware of “how everyday things used to be done,” particularly in the area of forestry and processing of timber.
The forestry industry has drastically changed in the last 10 years with the use of Google Maps, the addition of iPads for on-the-job digital maps, the use of helicopters and all-terrain vehicles, as well as the advances in GPS devices and the use of palm pilots or PDAs to record any and all findings.
Not only do these technological improvements make the life of a forester that much easier, they have also decreased the amount of time that needs to be spent in the field. The less time that is spent in the field has opened up time and availability for foresters to focus on alternate, specific areas of study that in the past, they may not have had the time to focus on.
The innovation of technology in the field of forestry has enhanced the forester’s job obligations, making it easier to provide the public and, of course, the government with quick and accurate results regarding the forests that surround us.
Technology has allowed tasks to be done in a qualitative manner, but it has also increased the number of tests or inspections that are done in a year, all the while storing all these files and findings in a database for easy access in the future, virtually making the department paperless. Although some may shy away from such drastic change, it is hard to argue against the positive effects of technology in the workplace. Technology may have its small downfalls, but the good definitely outweighs the bad in this specific situation.
In the past, when a forester completed an inspection, he often used multiple devices: one to take pictures, one to take notes, one to record location, etc. Now, however, with the addition of iPads and other similar devices, an employee can use one single
device with the capabilities of doing all of the necessary requirements with ease and effectiveness.
The iPad, for example, provides an all-in-one capability that has changed the field experience of a forester in an extremely positive way. An employee is able to take a quality photo, save the location, add notes and send to multiple recipients all with the press of a button and all with one device.
It’s no surprise that technology has helped foresters to work more efficiently, but what is surprising is how rapidly the use of mobile technology is growing across the department. At this stage, many employees are caught in the transitional stage from paper to paperless, and from primitive to technological.
Before they know it, the transition will be complete and their job will be changed forever; technology in the workplace will forever change a forester’s job description now and for many more years to come.
Terrell Balan
MIKE MORRISON BURSARY ESSAY
ABOUT THE BURSARYThe $1,000 Mike Morrison Memorial Bursary is offered to students from families involved in Merritt’s forest industry and returning to a multi-year post-secondary school program.
TECHNOLOGY AND FORESTRY
Applicants submit an original essay and description of their involvement in the community and their family members’ involvement in the forest industry.
The Merritt Forest Week Committee, comprised of representatives from area forest companies and the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, selects the recipient.
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Forest product companies in Canada will need • to hire at least 60,000 new workers by 2020
There are 10 universities across Canada that • offer forestry degrees as part of the Associa-tion of Canadian Forestry Schools
Forestry professionals don’t only harvest and • develop forest resources; they are also forest stewards and balance environmental concerns with sustainability
The University of Toronto’s faculty of forestry • is the country’s oldest
The Canadian Forest Service was formed • on March 8, 1900 in Ottawa by a group of influential Canadians from government and industry
Forest Fire Prevention Week was renamed to • National Forest Week by the CFA in 1968
The town of Whitecourt and Woodlands • County, Alta. were named the Forest Capital of Canada by the Canadian Institute of For-estry in 2014 — for the second year in a row.
One large, healthy tree can:
Lift up to 4,000 litres of water • from the ground and release it into the air.
Absorb as many as 7,000 dust • particles per litre of air.
Absorb 75 per cent of the CO2 • produced by the average car.
Provide a day’s oxygen for up to • four people.
White pines have soft, medium-• length needles in bundles of five.
Trees grow from the top, not the • bottom.
A tree’s outer bark is tough to • protect it from heat, cold, mois-
ture loss and injury.
The soft inner bark carries food • from the leaves and needles to all living parts of the tree.
As the tree ages, the old, inner • layers of sapwood die and become rigid heartwood, which gives the tree its strength.
Leaves and needles collect the • food for the tree through photo-synthesis using the sun’s warmth and light.
Trees release oxygen and water • into the atmosphere as byprod-ucts of photosynthesis.
The roots draw nutrients, water • and minerals from the soil.
DID YOU KNOW? TREE FACTS
DID YOU KNOW? FORESTRY FACTS
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BLACK COTTONWOODPopulus trichocarpa
Also known as balsam poplar• Straight, hardy trunk• Large, sticky, fragrant buds• Shiny dark green leaves• Male and female catkins grow on separate tress• Hairy capsules release seeds which are covered with white, fluffy hairs•
BLACK HAWTHORNCrataegus douglassii
Large shrub to small tree; up to eight metres tall• Stout, straight thorns• White flowers bloom during May and June• Oval-shaped leaves with small lobes at the top• Clusters of small black fruit (haws)• Nesting birds eat apple-like fruit •
CHOKE CHERRYPrunus virginiana
Shrub, sometimes grows into a small tree up to four metres tall• Twisting trunk• Oval-shaped leaves• Many small white flowers in cluster at the end of a twig• Shiny, round, dark cherries are bitter but edible• Smooth, dark reddish-brown bark•
DOUGLAS-FIRPseudotsuga menziesii
Named for Scottish botanist David Douglas• Scientific name is for Archibald Menzies, a rival naturalist• Reaches heights of 42 metres• Needles flat with pointed tip• Cones are five to 11 centimetres long• Not a true fir tree, which is why its name is hyphenated• Strength and availability make its wood useful for heavy-duty construction•
TREES OF B.C.In British Columbia, there are about 40 different species of native trees. The following pages contain a sampling of some of the tree species native to the Southern Interior.
Source: TreeBook, Ministry of Forests, 1995
Trees can be identified by the shape of their leaves:
Bundled, as in groups of two to five on a lodgepole pine or pon-derosa pine;
Not bundled, as on an Engelmann Spruce or white spruce;
Broad leaves growing from opposite sides of one another on the twig, as in a Douglas maple;
Small catkins, which are full of flowers as on a trembling aspen.
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DOUGLAS MAPLEAcer glabrum
Shrub to small tree one to seven metres high• Trunks sometimes divide into several slender limbs• Irregular, even-topped crown• Leaves seven to 10 centimetres wide• Fruit grows in a cluster of winged seeds which are pairs • joined in a V-shapeLeaves turn signature bright red-orange in autumn•
ENGELMANN SPRUCEPicea Engelmannii
Straight tree with spire-like crown• Branches near bottom droop• Needles come out in all directions from twigs• Grows at high elevations• Interbreeds with white spruce, which thrives in alpine areas• Violins, pianos, aircraft parts produced from Engelmann • spruce
LODGEPOLE PINEPinus contorta
Needles in bunches of two• Grows from mid-elevation to subalpine altitudes• Highly adaptable tree• Named for its common use as a structural support for tee-• pees
MOUNTAIN ALDER Alnus tenuifolio
Coarse shrub to small tree, usually two to 10 metres tall• Often occur in clumps• Thin, oval-shaped leaves• Yellow-brown bark with oval-shaped ruptures•
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PAPER BIRCHBetula papyrifera
Small to medium-sized tree• Up to 30 metres tall• Slender trunk• Thin, white to reddish-brown bark with dark horizontal slits • Bark peels in paper strips• Grows in almost all areas of mainland B.C.• Important food source for forest animals including deer, moose, snowshoe hare, porcupine, and beaver • Many birds nest in paper birch•
PIN CHERRYPrunus pensylvaniw
Shrub to small tree up to five metres tall• Straight trunk• Clusters of five to seven small white flowers• Sour-tasting, small, round, bright red cherries• Berries are a favourite of many birds• Pin cherry flesh is not harmful, but their stones contain cyanide, which is toxic•
PONDEROSA PINEPinus ponderosa
Characteristic tree of the • Southern InteriorStraight trunk• Grows up to 25 to 30 • metres tallNeedles in bunches of three• Thrives in dry conditions • because its long, deep roots can reach deep, moist soilCan live as long as 500 • yearsNamed for its ponderous • size
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUNIPERJuniperus scopulorum
Shrub-like tree reaching 13 metres in height• Twisting trunk • Scale-like leaves• Grows in dry soils at mid to high altitudes • Often grows with other juniper species•
SUBALPINE FIRAbies lasiocarpa
Grows 20 to 35 metres tall• Thrives at 600 metres above sea level and higher• Long, narrow crown• Short, stiff branches• Blue-green needles have blunt ends• Smooth, grey bark which scales with age• Caribou eat lichens on lower branches•
TREMBLING ASPENPopulus tremuloides
Slender tree with smooth, greenish-white bark which doesn’t peel• Grows up to 25 metres tall• Named for leaves which quiver in slightest breeze• Glossy green leaves turn yellow — rarely red — in the autumn• Commonly used for pulp products such as books, paper and newsprint•
WESTERN LARCHLarix occidentalis
Up to 80 metres tall• Loses its needles in autumn• Can be as old as 850 years• Mature trees shed lower branches,• making them more fire resistant
The leaves of trembling aspens turn yellow in autumn.
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Celebrating three generations of sustainability.
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National Forest Week 2014
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