ABSTRACT
In the early days of forestry development in British Columbia, reforestation received little attention. Compared to Europe and other places where forest culture has evolved over several hundred years, if not longer, forest management, particularly forest renewal, is a fairly recent phenomenon in BC. In this concluding chapter, an assessment of silvicultural investment in BC’s public forestlands is provided and conclusions are drawn. We begin in section 9.1 with an overview of the principal institutional features of the silviculture sector, followed in section 9.2 by a profile of the Province’s silvicultural investments.1 In section 9.3, we discuss the major institutional obstacles to adequate silvicultural investment. Then we make recommendations in section 9.4 on how to restructure BC’s institutional framework to encourage greater efficiency in the choice and manner in which silvicultural activities are carried out. Finally, we conclude with some general observations.
