FORREX, in partnership with the British Columbia provincial government’s Forest Science and Mountain Pine Beetle programs, continues the delivery of the Provincial Forest Extension Program (PFEP; the Program). The Program plan defines goals, outcome objectives, and strategies that contribute to the provincial goal of world leadership in environmental stewardship, a globally competitive forest sector, public confidence and trust in forest-sector competence, and the ability to achieve sustainable forest management goals.

Annual Workplan Projects: 2007–2008
The 2007–2008 Program activities focus on contributing to five of six medium-term outcome objectives. These objectives were defined in 2005–2006 following a comprehensive provincial client needs assessment and analysis of past research and extension investments.

What is Extension?
Extension is the process of empowering people with knowledge. Extension professionals engage information providers and users in various strategies to move information along a continuum from questions to solutions.

1. Increasing awareness by forestry professionals of current scientific, experiential, and indigenous knowledge.
   • Ecosystem Management and Conservation Biology Technology Transfer
   • Forest Resource Dynamics Publications and Synthesis Development
   • Publishing quality science-based information
   • Watershed Management Publications and Synthesis
   • Watershed Management List (WatershedExt) and Webpages


2. Increased trust in information products and providers.
   • Maintaining Access to Forest Resources Dynamics Information on the World Wide Web
   • Maintaining Access To Science-based Information


3. Increased knowledge and skills of current and relevant scientific, experiential, and indigenous knowledge relating to sustainable forest management.
   • Ecosystem Management and Conservation Policies and Practices
   • Sustainable Forestry Extension for Small Tenures
   • Synthesis of Socio-economics Knowledge
   • Watershed Management, Fisheries, Small Streams and Fish-Forestry Interactions
   • Aboriginal Forestry Extension Program
   • Extending Ecosystem Management and Conservation Innovations in Planning, Implementation and Monitoring
   • Forest Resources Dynamics Extension Programming to Improve Timber Value and Enhance SFM Approaches
   • Watershed Management Extension
   • Socio-economics Capacity Building


4. Increased science-based policy, plans and practices decisions that result in reduced risk and uncertainty and increase competitiveness.
   • Engaging Communities of Practice to Improve Forest Management Policies and Practices
   • Watershed Management Needs Assessments - Southern and Northern Interior


5. Forest managers and the public will aspire to use ecosystem management principles and adopt an improved way of defining values and strategies to manage for these values to reduce risk and uncertainty.
   • No projects planned this year


6. Improved effectiveness and efficiency in co-operative sustainable forest management continuing education and extension program planning and delivery.
   • Support to FIA-FSP Program Advisory Committees
   • Continuing Forest Sector Education Initiative
   • Contributing to an Innovative Scientific Publishing Community
   • Enabling a Knowledge-Based Natural Resource Sector
   • Extension Leadership
   • Extension Leadership and Capacity Building in the Conservation Community

Mountain Pine Beetle Extension Projects: 2007–2008
In addition to the core Program, FORREX will continue to improve access and use of biophysical science and innovations by developing and delivering Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) extension projects. Projects will contribute to science-based solutions that will:

• develop measures to reduce the spread of MPB,
• protect sensitive fish streams/rivers and species at risk, and
• address fuel management on lands surrounding high-risk communities.

1. Improving access and use of science and innovation in areas affected by mountain pine beetle
2. Science based policies and practices to mitigate the impacts of mountain pine beetle
3. Northern Watershed Management Extension and Watershed Monitoring and Measurement

FORREX is pleased to continue to work with the Forest Science Program (FSP) and our Partners in the forestry community to link the resource community with credible and relevant scientific, indigenous, and experiential knowledge.