https://jem-online.org/forrex/index.php/jem <p>The <em>Journal of Ecosystems and Management </em>(JEM) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal covering natural resource and ecosystem management issues relevant to British Columbia. In addition to scientific articles, JEM provides a forum for commentary on current natural resource challenges. JEM’s broad readership includes natural resource practitioners, professionals, policymakers, and researchers. The Journal extends research results, indigenous knowledge, management applications, socio-economic analyses, and scholarly opinions. JEM is an open-source journal, freely available to the public at <span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2244_com_zimbra_url" class="Object"><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2245_com_zimbra_url" class="Object"><a href="http://www.jem-online.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jem-online.org .<br /></a></span></span></p> <p><strong>Reader Comments </strong>Your views and comments are always welcome. Please register to comment on articles.</p> en-US https://jem-online.org/forrex/index.php/jem/announcement/view/17 <p>Shawn Morford was with FORREX from 1999 to 2006, working from the Pacific Forestry Center in Victoria and at the FORREX office in Kamloops. She moved to Oregon in 2006 and then retired as the Executive Director of the State Forests Trust of Oregon. Mumford is still an adjunct faculty member at Portland State University. <em>East Wind</em> on Bandcamp is her first release of an original single.</p> Journal of Ecosystems and Management 2024-09-06 https://jem-online.org/forrex/index.php/jem/announcement/view/15 <main id="wp--skip-link--target" class="wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="padding-top: var(--wp--preset--spacing--50); padding-bottom: 0;"> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="padding-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);"> <div class="entry-content alignfull wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow" style="padding: 2vw 6vw 2vw 6vw;"> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide is-vertical is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex" style="padding: 0;"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"><main id="wp--skip-link--target" class="wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="padding-top: var(--wp--preset--spacing--50); padding-bottom: 0;"> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="padding-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);"> <div class="entry-content alignfull wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow" style="padding: 2vw 6vw 2vw 6vw;"> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide is-vertical is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex" style="padding: 0;"> <div class="wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis: 33.38%;"> <p class="has-text-color" style="color: #000000; padding-top: var(--wp--preset--spacing--60); font-size: clamp(15.747px, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.938), 24px);">The SER North American 2024 Conference will provide an interactive forum to learn and share about the science and practice of ecological restoration across ecosystems and disciplines to better connect a diverse and engaged restoration community.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis: 33%;"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img class="wp-image-1157" style="width: 351px; height: auto;" src="https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited.png" sizes="(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px" srcset="https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited.png 1632w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited-200x300.png 200w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited-683x1024.png 683w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited-768x1152.png 768w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited-1024x1536.png 1024w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2503-edited-1365x2048.png 1365w" alt="Snowy mountain peaks near D'Arcy, British Columbia. Photo credit Elise Mackie." width="1632" height="2448" /></figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis: 33.62%;"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img class="wp-image-1156" src="https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited.png" sizes="(max-width: 1890px) 100vw, 1890px" srcset="https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited.png 1890w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited-188x300.png 188w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited-640x1024.png 640w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited-768x1229.png 768w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited-960x1536.png 960w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6886-edited-1280x2048.png 1280w" alt="Juan de Fuca Park, Vancouver Island, Photo credit Elise Mackie." width="1890" height="3024" /></figure> </div> </div> <p class="has-medium-font-size">SER 2024 North American Conference is being planned in cooperation with SER Northwest, SER Western Canada and other partners in North America, the home of many histories, heritages, backgrounds and Indigenous communities.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="padding-right: var(--wp--preset--spacing--50); flex-basis: 50%;"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Attendees can expect to:</h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share your experiences with ecological restoration across biomes, ecosystems and communities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect with a diverse group to improve ecological restoration and conservation across North America</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn about new theories, approaches and practices in a transdisciplinary environment.</span></p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img class="wp-image-988" style="width: 515px; height: auto;" src="https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Blue-Grey-Minimalist-Modern-Business-Card-1-1024x585.png" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Blue-Grey-Minimalist-Modern-Business-Card-1-1024x585.png 1024w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Blue-Grey-Minimalist-Modern-Business-Card-1-300x171.png 300w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Blue-Grey-Minimalist-Modern-Business-Card-1-768x439.png 768w, https://sernac.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Blue-Grey-Minimalist-Modern-Business-Card-1.png 1050w" alt="" width="1024" height="585" /></figure> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </main> <div class="wp-site-blocks"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-11 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><footer class="site-footer wp-block-template-part"> <div class="wp-block-group has-contrast-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-10 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow" style="padding: var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);"> <div class="wp-block-group has-white-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;"> <p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-07362df3b5026310a342252cdd3e9ee0" style="margin-top: var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);">Copyright © <a href="https://www.ser.org/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.ser.org/?">SER</a> 2024. All Rights Resex</p> </div> </div> </footer></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </main> Journal of Ecosystems and Management 2024-09-04 https://jem-online.org/forrex/index.php/jem/announcement/view/9 <p>In the face of many challenges related to a range of social, ecological, and ecomic factors, a growing number of British Columbia's forest-dependent communities see community forests as a way to stabilize their rural communities.</p><p>This guidebook by Susan Mulkey and Ken Day will be a valuable resource to those looking at the basics of community forest organizational governance and policy. It also provides communities with various aspects of operational community forest management.</p><p>(Published by FORREX and the British Columbia Community Forest Association.)</p> Journal of Ecosystems and Management 2013-03-06 https://jem-online.org/forrex/index.php/jem/announcement/view/8 <p>The Guidebook addresses the requirements for fish passage in the <em>Forest and Range Practices Act</em> and regulations, and in the federal <em>Fisheries Act</em>. The Guidebook is a revision to the former <em>Forest Practices Code of British Columbia </em>Fish-stream Crossing Guidebook, March 2002. The main changes made are highlighted in Section 1.2 of the revised Guidebook.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></p><p>The FPTWG includes scientific/technical experts from the BC Ministry of Environment; BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations; and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. You can learn more about the Working Group and their work in the above noted website.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></p><p>The FPTWG acknowledges that recent amendments to the federal <em>Fisheries Act</em> and pending amendments to various regulations under that <em>Act</em> will likely require further revisions to the Guidebook in the future. At that time, the FPTWG also plans to update and broaden the scope of the document to provide more guidance on fish-stream crossing under other legal regimes.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></p><p>The FPTWG also recognizes that other improvements can likely be made to the Guidebook based on operational use and experience. The FPTWG welcomes at any time your feedback on the Guidebook and ideas on how it can be improved; please send those comments to Ian Miller, RPF, Resource Practices Branch, BC Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations at: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://mce_host/index.php/jem/manager/Ian.C.Miller@gov.bc.ca">Ian.C.Miller@gov.bc.ca</a></span></span> or Peter Tschaplinski, P. Ag. Ecosystems Branch, BC Ministry of Environment at: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://mce_host/index.php/jem/manager/Peter.Tschaplinski@gov.bc.ca">Peter.Tschaplinski@gov.bc.ca</a><br /> </span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></blockquote> Journal of Ecosystems and Management 2012-11-21 https://jem-online.org/forrex/index.php/jem/announcement/view/7 <p>Dr. Wilford’s professional forestry experience spans 35 years, wherein he has dedicated his research to helping forest professionals and communities better manage BC’s forests through the integration of forestry and geoscience. He is also recognized for his dedicated support as a community volunteer.</p> Journal of Ecosystems and Management 2012-11-16