{"id":16,"date":"2016-11-02T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/freegrowing\/?p=16"},"modified":"2016-11-02T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:30:31","slug":"why-we-are-doing-this-rethinking-free-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/2016\/11\/02\/why-we-are-doing-this-rethinking-free-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Free Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We would like to use this blog as a mechanism for discussions on silviculture practices that can grow and build. Obviously there is a wealth of experience, ideas, and opinions out there and we are eager to create a forum where we can give each other feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ultimately our goal is to find out if folks think our silviculture practices and\/or policies need to change in order\u00a0to create stands which are healthy and resilient in the face of risk. We are climbing out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/industry\/forestry\/managing-our-forest-resources\/forest-health\/forest-pests\/bark-beetles\/mountain-pine-beetle\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB)<\/a>, the failure of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/controls-controles\/softwood-bois_oeuvre\/index.aspx?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\">Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA)<\/a> is looming, and the specter of climate change keeps creeping closer. Here are a\u00a0couple of questions that we think might start the discussion in the direction of our ultimate question:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Do current regeneration practices adequately address risks from climate change and forest health factors to rotation age?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In your opinion, is application of the \u201cfree-to-grow\u201d concept resulting in stands that will meet government objectives for timber and other values<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to use this blog as a mechanism for discussions on silviculture practices that can grow and build. Obviously there is a wealth of experience, ideas, and opinions out there and we are eager to create a forum where we can give each other feedback. Ultimately our goal is to find out if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/silviculturediscussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}