ABSTRACT
Oriented toward reforestation, silvicultural investments in BC began with nursery establishment in the late 1920s at selected locations on the Coast. Since then, silvicultural activities have evolved primarily in response to changes in the forest resource base, technological advances and shifts in societal values. Several decades of rapid forest development left behind large areas of not-satisfactorily-restocked (NSR) sites that contributed, in the late 1960s, to the emergence of a distinct silvicultural contracting sector inBC.1
