Forestry Technician – Coastal Natural Resource Management Ltd.
During my first term as a UBC Co-op student, I have been working as a Forestry Technician for Coastal Natural Resource Management Ltd. I have had the pleasure of working all over Northern British Columbia, spending time in Mackenzie, Prince George, and Quesnel. I have undertaken a wide variety of roles, such as conducting silviculture regen surveys, boundary and road layout, as well as riparian assessment.
In my time with Coastal, I have learned the procedures of block layout, including access planning, slope gauging, as well as timber and riparian evaluation, all the while improving my native tree and shrub identification skills. I have come to appreciate long rewarding days in the field, as I have had countless eye-opening wildlife sightings. The most memorable being a brief, yet breathtaking run in with a wolverine!
I originally joined the UBC Co-op program to gain experience applying learnings from the classroom; however, my time working with Coastal has been so much than that. I have thoroughly enjoyed improving my data collection and analysis, species ID knowhow, and my understanding of forest dynamics. I look forward to continuing to work in remote areas of British Columbia with kind and hardworking people as it has been an extremely rewarding experience.