Here’s the slide show that Erik Leslie, HPCC’s Forest Manager, presented at the community celebration / firefighter thank you party in Procter on November 17th.

EL fire presentation for community celebration Nov2017

Rural Routes is a podcast produced in Saint John’s, Newfoundland.  It is an initiative of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation.

Their most recent episode is entitled The Future of Forestry.

http://ruralroutespodcasts.com/?p=2047

The beginning of the podcast includes an interview with Floris Dusselhof from the community forest sawmill, and the latter part of the podcast includes an interview with forest manager Erik Leslie.

Erik post-fire BRIEF presentation 23Oct2017

This is a short slide presentation on the Harrop wildfire that HPCC’s Forest Manager Erik Leslie put together for a public meeting in October.

Harrop-Procter community forest was recently awarded the Robin Hood Memorial Award for Excellence in Community Forestry.  The award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, is based on the recommendation of a committee of BC Community Forest Association directors and senior Ministry of Forests’ staff.

See the full BCCFA Press Release at

http://bccfa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BCCFA-Press-Release-June-18-2017.pdf

Public meeting poster 21June2017

Harrop-Procter community forest is featured in a recent Community Futures “You can do that here” podcast.

You can find the podcast episode here: http://futures.bc.ca/episode-101-you-can-do-that-here-harrop-proctor-community-forest-how-to-drive-sustainability-with-entrepreneurship/

UBC Press has just published a book entitled Community Forestry in Canada.  The book is edited by Sara Teitelbaum, assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Montreal.

Harrop-Procter community forest is discussed several times in the book, most notably in Chapter 10 Striking the balance: Source water protection and organizational resilience in BC’s community forests and in Chapter 12 Stronger rights, Novel outcomes: Why community forests need more control over forest management.

Chapter 12 was written by HPCC Forest Manager Erik Leslie.

The book outline is at http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299175189

The softcover version of the book will be released in March 2017.