Canadian Woodlands Forum Fall Meeting

Hi All,

The 2018 Canadian Woodlands Forum Fall Meeting will be taking place October 17 – 18, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Truro, Nova Scotia.

The Canadian Woodlands Forum and our host Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corp. cordially invite you to attend the 2018 Fall Meeting in the ‘hub’ of Nova Scotia!
Our program entitled, “Growing Healthy Forests for the Future” will focus on managing our forest resources to sustain a competitive forestry sector and prosperous communities”. Both the technical program and field trip will focus on elements of the wood value chain and the integration of the forestry sector, high-performance forestry to grow quality sawlogs, and different management approaches to maintaining ecological value.
This two-day event will bring together forestry professionals and community leaders from across the Atlantic region. Check out the preliminary program & hope you can join us!
Sincerely,
Peter Robichaud
Executive Director, CWF

FALLPREREG2018 FINAL

DOWNLOAD HERE: Fall Program

2018 Scalers Exam Notice

Hello Folks, it may not feel it today, but spring is in the air, below is details for the annual scalers exam and refresher…

Arrangements for the 2018 Provincial Scalers Examinations are as follows:
Location: Florenceville ERD Office, 381 Centreville Road, Route 110, Florenceville-Bristol, NB

May 24, starting at 8:30 AM – General License, Stacked Measure
May 25, starting at 8:30 AM – FBM

Applications must be received at ERD Forest Operations and Development by May 1 (https://www.pxw1.snb.ca/snb7001/b/1000/CSS-FOL-SNB-60-0006B.pdf).
ERD will be conducting a Scalers Refresher Course on May 22 and 23 in both official languages at this same location (8:30 – 4:30). This is available to exam candidates only. There is no fee for this refresher. Candidates are strongly encouraged to attend.
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Les examens provinciaux de 2018 à l’intention des mesureurs se dérouleront aux dates et lieu que voici :
Lieu : bureau DER District-Florenceville, 381 rue Centreville, Route 110, Florenceville-Bristol, NB

Le 24 mai à compter de 8 h 30 – permis général et mesurage du volume apparent
Le 25 mai à compter de 8 h 30 – mesurage en pieds-planche (pmp)

Les formulaires de demande en pièce jointe doivent être dûment remplis et doivent parvenir à la Direction des activités forestière et mise en valeur au plus tard le 1 mai (https://www.pxw1.snb.ca/snb7001/b/1000/CSS-FOL-SNB-60-0006B.pdf).

Par ailleurs, le Ministère offrira gratuitement un cours de recyclage pour les mesureurs au même endroit, les 22 et 23 mai, de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30. Le cours, qui sera donné dans les deux langues officielles, ne sera offert qu’aux candidats à l’examen. Ces derniers sont donc vivement encouragés à y assister.

Peter J. McCue
Chief Scaler/ Chef Mesureur
Forest Operations and Development / Activités forestières et mise en valeur
Energy and Resource Development / Développement de l’énergie et des ressources
Phone / Téléphone : 506-451-5624
Fax / Télécopieur : 506-453-6689
E-mail / Courriel : Peter.McCue@gnb.ca
www.gnb.ca

CSS-FOL-SNB-60-0006B

LINK HERE: CSS-FOL-SNB-60-0006B.pdf – APPLICATION TO EXAMINE FOR SCALER LICENCE

2018 AGM Annoucement

Hi Folks,

The NBFTA 2018 AGM will be held April 5th, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Moncton, New Brunswick. The AGM will run from 1 – 5pm and will be located in the Acadian Room on the 9th floor.

Below is a flyer for the event. It would be nice to see as many of you out to the event as possible this year.

The event is being held in conjunction with the Canadian Woodlands Forum once again this spring, which will be guaranteed to deliver another great show!

2018 AGM Annoucement

DOWNLOAD HERE: NBFTA AGM Announcement

2018 CWF Spring Meeting Pre Reg

DOWNLOAD HERE:CWF Spring Meeting Registration and Agenda

Two-day Introductory to GIS Workshop

Hi Folks,

UNB is hosting a two-day GIS training workshop on March 8th and 9th. This workshop is intended for natural resource professionals seeking a basic working knowledge of the ArcGIS software suite. Participants will gain hands-on experience with ArcGIS (provided) in a computer lab setting. As a result of the workshop, participants will be able to acquire, manage and use spatial data to develop, symbolize and share informative maps, perform common editing and geoprocessing operations and interchange between GIS and GPS data formats.

This would be worth 14 Category 1 CE credits.

Further details on the workshop and directions for registration can be found at:
GIS 1 for Natural Resource Professionals

Introduction to LiDAR Based Enhanced Forest Inventory (EFI), Terrain and Surface Products for Forest Professionals

The Maritime College of Forest Technology’s, Department of Continuing Education is pleased to offer Introduction to LiDAR Based Enhanced Forest Inventory (EFI), Terrain and Surface Products for Forest Professionals with Riley Côté-DeMerchant as lead instructor. The dates are February 20th & 21st, 2017 beginning at 8:30 AM each day. The course will be held in room 224 of the Maritime College of Forest Technology, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Specific course details including an instructor profile, application form, and tuition costs are included in the course registration form (link at end of article).

As LiDAR accessibility continues to increase, more industries are adopting the technology and discovering its practical and cost-saving applications. Resource industries including forestry, mining, and energy, are using LiDAR to increase efficiencies and lower operational costs. These industries are continuously discovering new ways to manipulate and apply data to better their operations, such as discovering watercourses and previously undetected structures and growth patterns.

Much like the GIS, LiDAR has the potential to revolutionize the forest industry. The availability of LiDAR derived Enhanced Forest Inventories has recently become more common and available across many land bases in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, presenting forest professionals with an unprecedented amount of relevant data.  The available information ranges from basic tree height, to more complex and detailed inventory attributes such as diameter distribution of stems throughout a stand. Further, EFI provides highly detailed information on the ground, including elevation data, percent slope and, and accurate hydrographic information.

To download the course announcement, please click here.

Conference Announcement: Celebrating Canada’s 150 — Are Our Urban Forests Ready for the Next 150?

Hi Folks,

On November 7th and 8th, 2017 at the Crown Plaza in Fredericton, there will be an Urban Forest Workshop. The workshop objective is to facilitate a discussion about municipal urban forests in Atlantic Canada. To share master plans and various strategies/ unique initiatives used to improve and maintain healthy urban forests now and into the future.

There is a great line of speakers from across North America and from the locally community and this would be a great opportunity to earn CFE Credits.

For NBFTA members the overall course would be worth 13 credits of category 1, another 1 credit of category 1 for the evening dinner and then the tour would be worth 1 hours for each 3 hours of the tour for category 1.

UrbanForest_Agenda partial August 2017

DOWNLOAD HERE: Urban Forest Conference Agenda

UrbanForest_Annoucement Sept 2017

DOWNLOAD HERE: Urban Forest Conference Annoucement

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