Careers
Miscellaneous
Acronyms
Tree ID
Fun Facts
100
A person who measures the volume and quality of standing and downed timber before it has been harvested
Who is a Timber Cruiser?
100
Tool used to measure heights or angles of elevation
What is a clinometer?
100
RPF and RFT
What is a Registered Professional Forester and Registered Forest Technologist?
100
The "Tree of Life" for our Indigenous communities
What is Western Red Cedar?
100
80.8 metres
What is the height of the tallest tree in the BC Big Tree Registry (Sitka Spruce)?
https://bigtrees.forestry.ubc.ca/bc-bigtree-registry/
200
The Association that regulates RPFs and RFTs
What is the Association of BC Forest Professionals (ABCFP)?
200
The process for measuring the volume and quality of cut timber
What is timber scaling?
200
UAV
What is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle?
200
This unique 6.4 million hectare area is subject to a unique forest management regime and home to the Kermode bear
What is the Great Bear Rainforest?
300
UBC, UNBC, VIU, BCIT, NVIT, CNC, Selkirk College
What are post-secondary institutions in BC offering natural resource related programs?
300
An invasive plant species endangering the health of the North Island watersheds
What is Knotweed?
300
BCTS
What is BC Timber Sales?
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/bc-timber-sales/careers
300
What is a Western Hemlock?
300
85% or 2,860,000 hectares
What is the amount of Vancouver Island that is forested?
400
The person who evaluates the potential for landslides and designs control measures
Who is a Geotechnical Engineer?
400
The term for the amount of forest that can be sustainably harvested each year - as set by the Chief Forester of BC
Allowable Annual Cut (AAC) - expressed in cubic metres (m3)
400
TFL, WL, FLTC, FL, FNWL, CFA
What are some of the forest tenures that can be issued under the Forest Act?
400
It is decorated in December
What is a Christmas Tree?
400
19% or 536,000 hectares
What is the amount of Vancouver Island's forested lands that are protected?
500
Administration, Authorizations, Ecosystems Biology, Engineering, First Nations Relations, Forest Revenue, Forest Stewardship, Forest Tenuring
What are the specific business areas that staff in the District Office are involved in?
500
The single point of contact designed to assist you with licences, permits, registrations and other authorizations you may need to utilize the natural resources of BC
What is FrontCounter BC?
500
UNDRIP
What is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?
500
Their cones need heat to open
What is a Lodgepole Pine?
500
77
What is the number of staff who work in this government building?