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Dear: 

Welcome to the June edition of PFLA's Private Forest Matters newsletter. Thanks to everyone who joined us in Campbell River, June 1st and 2nd, for our 21st annual conference.

A special shout-out of appreciation to Steve Lackey for all his help organizing the field tour, and to all the tour hosts and conference presenters for taking time out of your busy schedules to join us.

For those of you who couldn't make it, we've included some highlights below with more to follow next month.

As always, thanks for your interest.     
 
An arm-pumping PFLA handshake of appreciation to TimberWest biologists, Dave Lindsay and Molly Hudson, for their informative and engaging goshawk tour. TimberWest has a well-respected reputation for having a pro-active, science-based approach to goshawk management. PFLA tour participants were fortunate to learn from firsthand expertise about the specific characteristics and habitat ...[read more]» 
 
A big PFLA thanks to Craig Barnsley for presenting an update from BC Assessment at our 2016 conference, June 2nd, in Campbell River. For those of you who couldn't make it, we've included the complete PowerPoint presentation below. You can click on the arrows to move ...[read more]» 
 
As a forest owner or land manager you spend lots of time in the woods. Because known cases of Lyme disease are on the rise in Canada, and we're a safety-first kind of association, we've put together a post about how to identify ticks, how to avoid ticks and how to properly remove a tick should you need to. Ticks can't fly or jump, but they wait on tall grasses or bushes and attach themselves to  ...[read more]»
 
Thanks to a communication from Glen Okrainetz (Manager, Clean Air Section Environmental Standards Branch, Ministry of Environment) we're aware of an opportunity to comment on proposed changes to the Open Burning Smoke Control Regulation (OBSCR). The Ministry of Environment is in the process of revising the OBSCR ...[read more]»
 
One of the highlights from PFLA's 2016 field tour, June 1st in Campbell River, was a drone technology demonstration by Colin Filliter of Suavair. Colin uses drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), to capture low-elevation imagery. In case you missed it, and you're interested to learn more about the application of drone technology in silviculture surveys, here are three ...[read more]»
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