Candace Kenyon, manager of the ministry’s international tours, organizes and leads groups of people from around the world on tours of B.C. forest sites, with considerable help from forest district staff.

Candace is an avid photographer and shares these snaps from a couple of her tours this summer.

Brian Smart, District Planner for the Sunshine Coast forest district (left), explains the importance of the alder’s nitrogen-fixing properties to Dr. Noriyuki Kobayashi, General Manager of Environmental Research and Development, Sumitomo Forestry Co. Ltd. and Dr. Masahiro Iwaoka from the University of Tokyo, participants in a recent Japanese tour of the Mt. Elphinstone area.

Tony Willingdon, Nursery Manager, and Liz Bolha, Technician, both with the Surrey Nursery, pose with a group of Japanese foresters. They had just finished planting the Douglas Fir located in the centre of the photo at the Green Timbers Nursery. They brought their own sign to place in front of the tree and hope to visit in a few years’ time to check on its progress.

Wetlands 2000 field Tour

Eighteen wetlands scientists visited Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlottes this summer before attending a congress in Quebec.

The Ministry of Forests organized an eight-day tour for the group to visit various bog locations and to highlight our forest practices.

Allen Banner, Research Ecologist, Smithers, digs a plot in Kumdis Slough on the Queen Charlotte Islands, while tour participants as well as Will MacKenzie, Research Ecologist, Smithers, and Del Meidinger, Research Ecologist, Victoria, wait to get their hands in the muck.

Jim Pojar, Research Ecologist, Smithers (left), helps identify a plant.

Marty Kranabetter, Research Pedologist, Smithers (right), speaking to sphagnum expert Asbjorn Moen from Norway.