The Past Speaks

“During the First World War thousands of foresters left Canada to serve in the Canadian Forestry Corps in Europe. The Forestry Corps was set up to help European allies produce sufficient amounts of timber from their forests for the war effort. In Europe, these Canadian foresters were confronted with intensive forest management techniques, known to them but not practiced back home.

In this podcast David Brownstein of the University of British Columbia will explain how the coincidence of the exposure of Canadian foresters to European forestry management practice and the post-war seed collection were to transform Canadian forestry, leading to the abandonment of the policy of natural regeneration.”