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Journalism: The over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity
Journalism: Loss of forest-related employment
Journalism: The need to expedite final treaties with First Nations
Journalism: Loss of primary forest
Journalism: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity
Other notable forest-related writing and reports
Noteworthy writing and reports from the forest-industrial complex
Forest News
Library: The over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: Loss of primary forest
Library: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests
Make conservation of the hydrological function of forests a higher priority than timber extraction
Library: Loss of forest-related employment
Library: The need to expedite final treaties with First Nations
Transition from clearcut logging to selection logging
Library: Increase in forest fire hazard
Journalism: End public subsidization of BC's forest industry
Library: End public subsidization of BC's forest industry
Library: The need to reform BC forest legislation
Journalism: The need to reform BC forest legislation
Library: Creating a new vision for BC forests
Forest industry public subsidy calculator
Manufacturing and processing facilities
Forest Trends
Investigations
Community Forest Mapping Projects
Area-based calculations of carbon released from clearcut logging
Journalism: The increase in forest carbon emissions
Library: Increase in forest carbon emissions
To protect biodiversity, transition away from clearcut logging
Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance
Library: Loss of future employment resulting from exporting raw logs
Mapping old forest on Vancouver Island
Mapping old forest in Omineca Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Skeena Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Northeastern Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Cariboo Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in South Coast Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Thompson-Okanagan Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Kootenay-Boundary Natural Resource Region
Forest Conservation Organizations
Mapping old forest on Haida Gwaii
Mapping old forest on the central coast
Library: Ecologically damaging practices
Journalism: Ecologically damaging practices
Critical Issues
Analysis
Comment
Listed species: Cascades Natural Resource District
Listed species: 100 Mile House Natural Resource District
Listed species: Campbell River Natural Resource District
Listed species: Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District
Listed species: Chilliwack River Natural Resource District
Listed species: Fort Nelson Natural Resource District
Listed species: Haida Gwaii Natural Resource District
Listed species: Mackenzie Natural Resource District
Listed species: Nadina Natural Resource District
Listed species: North Island Natural Resource District
Listed species: Peace Natural Resource District
Listed species: Prince George Natural Resource District
Listed species: Quesnel Natural Resource District
Listed species: Rocky Mountain Natural Resource District
Listed species: Sea-to-Sky Natural Resource District
Listed species: Selkirk Natural Resource District
Listed species: Skeena Natural Resource District
Listed species: South Island Natural Resource District
Listed species: Stuart-Nechako Natural Resource District
Listed species: Sunshine Coast Natural Resource District
Listed species: Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District
Listed species: Coast Mountains Natural Resource District
Action Group: Divestment from forest-removal companies
Fact-checking mindustry myths
First Nations Agreements
Monitor: BC Timber Sales Auctions
BC Timber Sales auction of old-growth forests on Vancouver Island
Monitoring of forest fires in clearcuts and plantations: 2021
Library: End public subsidization of forest industry
Examples of engaging the mindustry:
Portal: The over-exploitation of BC forests
Portal: The need to reform BC forest legislation
Portal: The need to expedite treaties with First Nations
Portal: The need to get more organized, informed and inspired for change
Portal: Develop a new relationship with forests
Portal: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity
Portal: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests
Portal: Increase in forest fire hazard
Portal: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity
Portal: Increase in forest carbon emissions
Portal: Ecologically damaging forestry practices
Portal: Loss of forest-related employment
Portal: Loss of future employment resulting from raw log exports
Portal: Costs of floods, fires and clearcutting of watersheds
Portal: The economic impact on communities of boom and bust cycles
Portal: Loss of economic development by other forest-based sectors
Portal: The true cost of subsidies provided to the logging industry
Help
Loss of trust in institutions
Portal: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction
Portal: The psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Portal: Loss of trust in institutions caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Portal: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Journalism: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction
Journalism: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Journalism: Loss in trust of institutions as a result of over-exploitation of BC forests
Journalism: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction
Library: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Library: Loss of trust in institutions as a result of over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Resources: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Resources: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles
Resources: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors
Journalism: Cost of floods, fires and clearcutting of community watersheds
Journalism: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles
Journalism: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors
Library: Cost of floods, fires and clearcutting of community watersheds
Library: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles
Library: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors
Portal: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads
Portal: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Journalism: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads
Library: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads
Journalism: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Library: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Resources: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Resources: Ecologically damaging forestry practices
Resources: Conversion of forests to permanent logging roads
Library: Getting organized
Journalism: Getting organized
Forest politics
Forest Stewards
Portal: Plantation failure
Library: Plantation failure
Journalism: Plantation failure
Library: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity
Portal: Soil loss and damage
Journalism: Soil loss and damage
Library: Soil loss and damage
Resources: Soil loss and damage
Journalism: Loss of employment resulting from export of raw logs
Journalism: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity
Journalism: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests
Journalism: Increase in forest fire hazard
Action Group: Sunlighting professional reliance
Making the case for much greater conservation of BC forests
Science Alliance for Forestry Transformation
Bearing witness:
Economic State of the BC Forest Sector
Big tree mapping and monitoring
Reported Elsewhere
Protect more
Start a forest conservation project
Get involved
Article reference pages
Physical impacts created by logging industry
Nature Directed Stewardship at Glade and Laird watersheds
References for: How did 22 TFLs in BC evade legal old-growth management areas?
References for: BC's triangle of fire: More than just climate change
References for: Teal Cedar goes after Fairy Creek leaders
References for: Is the draft framework on biodiversity and ecosystem health something new? Or just more talk and log?
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Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Start a forest conservation project
Here are the latest numbers for the site so far (since December 7): Unique visitors: ~5,500 Pageviews: 23,000 Multiple clicks by the same person on slideshows don't show up in these counts. I have only sent out one email. We're not really even trying yet. -
Here are the latest numbers for the site so far (since December 7): Unique visitors: ~5,500 Pageviews: 23,000 Multiple clicks by the same person on slideshows don't show up in these counts. I have only sent out one email. We're not really even trying yet.
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Here are the latest numbers for the site so far (since December 7): Unique visitors: ~5,500 Pageviews: 23,000 Multiple clicks by the same person on slideshows don't show up in these counts. I have only sent out one email. We're not really even trying yet.
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Here are the latest numbers for the site so far (since December 7): Unique visitors: ~5,500 Pageviews: 23,000 Multiple clicks by the same person on slideshows don't show up in these counts. I have only sent out one email. We're not really even trying yet.
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Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Protect more
Hi Trevor, thanks for that. Your website looks great, by the way. We basically agree on the need for a limited number of entry points, at least to the architecture of one aspect of the site's core content. One core purpose of the Evergreen Alliance site is to curate and display ALL the arguments for greater conservation of forests. The slideshow on the Evergreen Alliance home page provides 9 entry points to that function. I tried to make this a smaller set, but it just didn't work. You have to click on a slide to go the next level. But the entry points are: (1) Making the case for greater conservation of BC forests (a description of what we are are doing and why we're doing it) (2) BC is greatly over-exploiting its forests (puts BC's forest loss in global context) (3) Over-exploitation is causing serious physical impacts (physical impacts) (4) The high level of exploitation is harming BC's economy (economic impacts) (5) The physical and economic impacts have left deep social wounds (social impacts) (6) The logging industry has captured the public regulatory agency (need legislative reform) (7) BC is avoiding responsibility and shifting the onus for change to First Nations (Indigenous rights and title) (8) Nothing will change unless we engage the problem more vigorously (we need to get organized) (9) A new relationship with our forests is needed (solutions) Initially, this was displayed on the site as a list, like yours. Feedback from the test panel was that the list needed to be more graphic. I agreed. Thus the interactive slideshow. I have used this same strategy for the next level down, too, where it was applicable. One of the advantages of a slideshow (instead of a line of text) is that each slide image can suggest in an instant what this issue is about. And even if a viewer does not click through to the next layer (by clicking on the slide), the slideshow itself makes the argument in its briefest possible terms. Mission accomplished. By the way, I used a simple test to determine the underlying architecture of the site: Can everything that people are talking about, forestry-wise, fit into the structure? And, can it absorb science, journalism and public comment relevant to each? It took months to arrive at this architecture (and 4 tries). The structure flows from the impacts and the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in. It's complex and that complexity is unavoidable. However, having an organized architecture for making the case for greater conservation is not all that's required. We need to draw people back to the site time after time, so there needs to be dynamism on the site, a daily ebb and flow of ideas. So the site is also designed to respond to news, and people's desire to read reports, analysis and comment on forestry news and politics. Links to those stories are always put on the home page of a media site, which the Evergreen Alliance is. It just happens to be an activist media site. The website also has a number of tools that can be used to inform people who want to do different things, either at the provincial level or at the local level. It will take a while for people to discover all these tools, and more will be added. I find them highly useful when I am writing a story, and at some point I will take the time to show, in writing, how they can be used. The tools are mainly accessed through the menu at the top. If the drop down menus are too much work for people to absorb, I can eliminate that capability (in some cases). By they are really just shortcuts to the tools and the issues. Right now, about half of all visitors start at the homepage. A little less than half come from social media to an inner page and don't even see the homepage unless they click on "home". The balance of visitors come through searches. The homepage needs to be a content-rich landing page that people will be drawn back to, not just an entry point to the argument for greater conservation. I should be clear. Creating the current architecture (it consists of 144 databases) took me a year and a half of development and gruelling work. I basically had to learn to write code to make some of the features work. The site's architecture is like an inverted pyramid, with the home page being the pointy end. To shift to a different idea at that end would be, at this point, suicidal (time management-wise). I just don't have the time. I can add ideas to the site. I am happy to do that. I need to avoid responding to personal preferences about appearance. That said, I have simplified the look of the first screen and have moved the flow of new postings to the left side so that they show up at the top of a phone rather than at the bottom. (The site has to work for 4 different screens: phones, ipads, laptops and desktops.) Anybody have ideas for what is not on the site? (I will get the Harvest Billing System on the "tools" page ASAP.) -
Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Start a forest conservation project
Hi Trevor, thanks for that. Your website looks great, by the way. We basically agree on the need for a limited number of entry points, at least to the architecture of one aspect of the site's core content. One core purpose of the Evergreen Alliance site is to curate and display ALL the arguments for greater conservation of forests. The slideshow on the Evergreen Alliance home page provides 9 entry points to that function. I tried to make this a smaller set, but it just didn't work. You have to click on a slide to go the next level. But the entry points are: (1) Making the case for greater conservation of BC forests (a description of what we are are doing and why we're doing it) (2) BC is greatly over-exploiting its forests (puts BC's forest loss in global context) (3) Over-exploitation is causing serious physical impacts (physical impacts) (4) The high level of exploitation is harming BC's economy (economic impacts) (5) The physical and economic impacts have left deep social wounds (social impacts) (6) The logging industry has captured the public regulatory agency (need legislative reform) (7) BC is avoiding responsibility and shifting the onus for change to First Nations (Indigenous rights and title) (8) Nothing will change unless we engage the problem more vigorously (we need to get organized) (9) A new relationship with our forests is needed (solutions) Initially, this was displayed on the site as a list, like yours. Feedback from the test panel was that the list needed to be more graphic. I agreed. Thus the interactive slideshow. I have used this same strategy for the next level down, too, where it was applicable. One of the advantages of a slideshow (instead of a line of text) is that each slide image can suggest in an instant what this issue is about. And even if a viewer does not click through to the next layer (by clicking on the slide), the slideshow itself makes the argument in its briefest possible terms. Mission accomplished. By the way, I used a simple test to determine the underlying architecture of the site: Can everything that people are talking about, forestry-wise, fit into the structure? And, can it absorb science, journalism and public comment relevant to each? It took months to arrive at this architecture (and 4 tries). The structure flows from the impacts and the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in. It's complex and that complexity is unavoidable. However, having an organized architecture for making the case for greater conservation is not all that's required. We need to draw people back to the site time after time, so there needs to be dynamism on the site, a daily ebb and flow of ideas. So the site is also designed to respond to news, and people's desire to read reports, analysis and comment on forestry news and politics. Links to those stories are always put on the home page of a media site, which the Evergreen Alliance is. It just happens to be an activist media site. The website also has a number of tools that can be used to inform people who want to do different things, either at the provincial level or at the local level. It will take a while for people to discover all these tools, and more will be added. I find them highly useful when I am writing a story, and at some point I will take the time to show, in writing, how they can be used. The tools are mainly accessed through the menu at the top. If the drop down menus are too much work for people to absorb, I can eliminate that capability (in some cases). By they are really just shortcuts to the tools and the issues. Right now, about half of all visitors start at the homepage. A little less than half come from social media to an inner page and don't even see the homepage unless they click on "home". The balance of visitors come through searches. The homepage needs to be a content-rich landing page that people will be drawn back to, not just an entry point to the argument for greater conservation. I should be clear. Creating the current architecture (it consists of 144 databases) took me a year and a half of development and gruelling work. I basically had to learn to write code to make some of the features work. The site's architecture is like an inverted pyramid, with the home page being the pointy end. To shift to a different idea at that end would be, at this point, suicidal (time management-wise). I just don't have the time. I can add ideas to the site. I am happy to do that. I need to avoid responding to personal preferences about appearance. That said, I have simplified the look of the first screen and have moved the flow of new postings to the left side so that they show up at the top of a phone rather than at the bottom. (The site has to work for 4 different screens: phones, ipads, laptops and desktops.) Anybody have ideas for what is not on the site? (I will get the Harvest Billing System on the "tools" page ASAP.) -
Hi Trevor, thanks for that. Your website looks great, by the way. We basically agree on the need for a limited number of entry points, at least to the architecture of one aspect of the site's core content. One core purpose of the Evergreen Alliance site is to curate and display ALL the arguments for greater conservation of forests. The slideshow on the Evergreen Alliance home page provides 9 entry points to that function. I tried to make this a smaller set, but it just didn't work. You have to click on a slide to go the next level. But the entry points are: (1) Making the case for greater conservation of BC forests (a description of what we are are doing and why we're doing it) (2) BC is greatly over-exploiting its forests (puts BC's forest loss in global context) (3) Over-exploitation is causing serious physical impacts (physical impacts) (4) The high level of exploitation is harming BC's economy (economic impacts) (5) The physical and economic impacts have left deep social wounds (social impacts) (6) The logging industry has captured the public regulatory agency (need legislative reform) (7) BC is avoiding responsibility and shifting the onus for change to First Nations (Indigenous rights and title) (8) Nothing will change unless we engage the problem more vigorously (we need to get organized) (9) A new relationship with our forests is needed (solutions) Initially, this was displayed on the site as a list, like yours. Feedback from the test panel was that the list needed to be more graphic. I agreed. Thus the interactive slideshow. I have used this same strategy for the next level down, too, where it was applicable. One of the advantages of a slideshow (instead of a line of text) is that each slide image can suggest in an instant what this issue is about. And even if a viewer does not click through to the next layer (by clicking on the slide), the slideshow itself makes the argument in its briefest possible terms. Mission accomplished. By the way, I used a simple test to determine the underlying architecture of the site: Can everything that people are talking about, forestry-wise, fit into the structure? And, can it absorb science, journalism and public comment relevant to each? It took months to arrive at this architecture (and 4 tries). The structure flows from the impacts and the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in. It's complex and that complexity is unavoidable. However, having an organized architecture for making the case for greater conservation is not all that's required. We need to draw people back to the site time after time, so there needs to be dynamism on the site, a daily ebb and flow of ideas. So the site is also designed to respond to news, and people's desire to read reports, analysis and comment on forestry news and politics. Links to those stories are always put on the home page of a media site, which the Evergreen Alliance is. It just happens to be an activist media site. The website also has a number of tools that can be used to inform people who want to do different things, either at the provincial level or at the local level. It will take a while for people to discover all these tools, and more will be added. I find them highly useful when I am writing a story, and at some point I will take the time to show, in writing, how they can be used. The tools are mainly accessed through the menu at the top. If the drop down menus are too much work for people to absorb, I can eliminate that capability (in some cases). By they are really just shortcuts to the tools and the issues. Right now, about half of all visitors start at the homepage. A little less than half come from social media to an inner page and don't even see the homepage unless they click on "home". The balance of visitors come through searches. The homepage needs to be a content-rich landing page that people will be drawn back to, not just an entry point to the argument for greater conservation. I should be clear. Creating the current architecture (it consists of 144 databases) took me a year and a half of development and gruelling work. I basically had to learn to write code to make some of the features work. The site's architecture is like an inverted pyramid, with the home page being the pointy end. To shift to a different idea at that end would be, at this point, suicidal (time management-wise). I just don't have the time. I can add ideas to the site. I am happy to do that. I need to avoid responding to personal preferences about appearance. That said, I have simplified the look of the first screen and have moved the flow of new postings to the left side so that they show up at the top of a phone rather than at the bottom. (The site has to work for 4 different screens: phones, ipads, laptops and desktops.) Anybody have ideas for what is not on the site? (I will get the Harvest Billing System on the "tools" page ASAP.)
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Hi Trevor, thanks for that. Your website looks great, by the way. We basically agree on the need for a limited number of entry points, at least to the architecture of one aspect of the site's core content. One core purpose of the Evergreen Alliance site is to curate and display ALL the arguments for greater conservation of forests. The slideshow on the Evergreen Alliance home page provides 9 entry points to that function. I tried to make this a smaller set, but it just didn't work. You have to click on a slide to go the next level. But the entry points are: (1) Making the case for greater conservation of BC forests (a description of what we are are doing and why we're doing it) (2) BC is greatly over-exploiting its forests (puts BC's forest loss in global context) (3) Over-exploitation is causing serious physical impacts (physical impacts) (4) The high level of exploitation is harming BC's economy (economic impacts) (5) The physical and economic impacts have left deep social wounds (social impacts) (6) The logging industry has captured the public regulatory agency (need legislative reform) (7) BC is avoiding responsibility and shifting the onus for change to First Nations (Indigenous rights and title) (8) Nothing will change unless we engage the problem more vigorously (we need to get organized) (9) A new relationship with our forests is needed (solutions) Initially, this was displayed on the site as a list, like yours. Feedback from the test panel was that the list needed to be more graphic. I agreed. Thus the interactive slideshow. I have used this same strategy for the next level down, too, where it was applicable. One of the advantages of a slideshow (instead of a line of text) is that each slide image can suggest in an instant what this issue is about. And even if a viewer does not click through to the next layer (by clicking on the slide), the slideshow itself makes the argument in its briefest possible terms. Mission accomplished. By the way, I used a simple test to determine the underlying architecture of the site: Can everything that people are talking about, forestry-wise, fit into the structure? And, can it absorb science, journalism and public comment relevant to each? It took months to arrive at this architecture (and 4 tries). The structure flows from the impacts and the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in. It's complex and that complexity is unavoidable. However, having an organized architecture for making the case for greater conservation is not all that's required. We need to draw people back to the site time after time, so there needs to be dynamism on the site, a daily ebb and flow of ideas. So the site is also designed to respond to news, and people's desire to read reports, analysis and comment on forestry news and politics. Links to those stories are always put on the home page of a media site, which the Evergreen Alliance is. It just happens to be an activist media site. The website also has a number of tools that can be used to inform people who want to do different things, either at the provincial level or at the local level. It will take a while for people to discover all these tools, and more will be added. I find them highly useful when I am writing a story, and at some point I will take the time to show, in writing, how they can be used. The tools are mainly accessed through the menu at the top. If the drop down menus are too much work for people to absorb, I can eliminate that capability (in some cases). By they are really just shortcuts to the tools and the issues. Right now, about half of all visitors start at the homepage. A little less than half come from social media to an inner page and don't even see the homepage unless they click on "home". The balance of visitors come through searches. The homepage needs to be a content-rich landing page that people will be drawn back to, not just an entry point to the argument for greater conservation. I should be clear. Creating the current architecture (it consists of 144 databases) took me a year and a half of development and gruelling work. I basically had to learn to write code to make some of the features work. The site's architecture is like an inverted pyramid, with the home page being the pointy end. To shift to a different idea at that end would be, at this point, suicidal (time management-wise). I just don't have the time. I can add ideas to the site. I am happy to do that. I need to avoid responding to personal preferences about appearance. That said, I have simplified the look of the first screen and have moved the flow of new postings to the left side so that they show up at the top of a phone rather than at the bottom. (The site has to work for 4 different screens: phones, ipads, laptops and desktops.) Anybody have ideas for what is not on the site? (I will get the Harvest Billing System on the "tools" page ASAP.)
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Hi Trevor, thanks for that. Your website looks great, by the way. We basically agree on the need for a limited number of entry points, at least to the architecture of one aspect of the site's core content. One core purpose of the Evergreen Alliance site is to curate and display ALL the arguments for greater conservation of forests. The slideshow on the Evergreen Alliance home page provides 9 entry points to that function. I tried to make this a smaller set, but it just didn't work. You have to click on a slide to go the next level. But the entry points are: (1) Making the case for greater conservation of BC forests (a description of what we are are doing and why we're doing it) (2) BC is greatly over-exploiting its forests (puts BC's forest loss in global context) (3) Over-exploitation is causing serious physical impacts (physical impacts) (4) The high level of exploitation is harming BC's economy (economic impacts) (5) The physical and economic impacts have left deep social wounds (social impacts) (6) The logging industry has captured the public regulatory agency (need legislative reform) (7) BC is avoiding responsibility and shifting the onus for change to First Nations (Indigenous rights and title) (8) Nothing will change unless we engage the problem more vigorously (we need to get organized) (9) A new relationship with our forests is needed (solutions) Initially, this was displayed on the site as a list, like yours. Feedback from the test panel was that the list needed to be more graphic. I agreed. Thus the interactive slideshow. I have used this same strategy for the next level down, too, where it was applicable. One of the advantages of a slideshow (instead of a line of text) is that each slide image can suggest in an instant what this issue is about. And even if a viewer does not click through to the next layer (by clicking on the slide), the slideshow itself makes the argument in its briefest possible terms. Mission accomplished. By the way, I used a simple test to determine the underlying architecture of the site: Can everything that people are talking about, forestry-wise, fit into the structure? And, can it absorb science, journalism and public comment relevant to each? It took months to arrive at this architecture (and 4 tries). The structure flows from the impacts and the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in. It's complex and that complexity is unavoidable. However, having an organized architecture for making the case for greater conservation is not all that's required. We need to draw people back to the site time after time, so there needs to be dynamism on the site, a daily ebb and flow of ideas. So the site is also designed to respond to news, and people's desire to read reports, analysis and comment on forestry news and politics. Links to those stories are always put on the home page of a media site, which the Evergreen Alliance is. It just happens to be an activist media site. The website also has a number of tools that can be used to inform people who want to do different things, either at the provincial level or at the local level. It will take a while for people to discover all these tools, and more will be added. I find them highly useful when I am writing a story, and at some point I will take the time to show, in writing, how they can be used. The tools are mainly accessed through the menu at the top. If the drop down menus are too much work for people to absorb, I can eliminate that capability (in some cases). By they are really just shortcuts to the tools and the issues. Right now, about half of all visitors start at the homepage. A little less than half come from social media to an inner page and don't even see the homepage unless they click on "home". The balance of visitors come through searches. The homepage needs to be a content-rich landing page that people will be drawn back to, not just an entry point to the argument for greater conservation. I should be clear. Creating the current architecture (it consists of 144 databases) took me a year and a half of development and gruelling work. I basically had to learn to write code to make some of the features work. The site's architecture is like an inverted pyramid, with the home page being the pointy end. To shift to a different idea at that end would be, at this point, suicidal (time management-wise). I just don't have the time. I can add ideas to the site. I am happy to do that. I need to avoid responding to personal preferences about appearance. That said, I have simplified the look of the first screen and have moved the flow of new postings to the left side so that they show up at the top of a phone rather than at the bottom. (The site has to work for 4 different screens: phones, ipads, laptops and desktops.) Anybody have ideas for what is not on the site? (I will get the Harvest Billing System on the "tools" page ASAP.)
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Well said Herb and Ben. Thanks for joining the conversation. Herb: Many of us agree that a culture that ignores ecological realities will get deeper and deeper in trouble, including by over-exploiting forests. We can see the results of that over-exploitation in the forest fires, floods and species loss and the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. If there were a first step to be taken toward ecologically-based, precautionary decision-making, what is that step and how do we start to take it? Ben: Isn't clearcutting an effect rather than a cause? What causes clearcutting? Yes, chainsaws and feller-bunchers, but why are those machines in the forest in the first place? It doesn't happen for no reason, especially at the scale (~250,000 hectares per year if we count both publicly owned and private land) that its occurring in BC. The ultimate cause is the export market for lumber. That market demands lumber for building homes and other structures, mainly in the USA. Those exports are the cause of the clearcuts. How do we convince British Columbians that we can't afford to be an environmental sacrifice zone for the USA, China and Japan? Our two biggest clearcut-causing customers, China and the USA, are also the #1 and #3 largest exporters of wood products, according to 2016 Natural Resources Canada data (see table below). What is the first step to take to get influential British Columbians—folks like Daniels and Gray—to understand that logging is creating as much economic damage in BC as economic gain? Or is it causing more?
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Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Protect more
What I heard: The homepage is too complex. The content is too complex/technical for some people. The site should be easy to use. It's unclear who we are trying to reach through the site. There should be less choice confronting viewers. Viewers should have to register or they can't access the site. EA needs to seek endorsement from other higher profile orgs. The site should be structured based on level of knowledge. The site needs a resource for aiding or inspiring communities to start grassroots organizations. Some ministry people would/may comment in future but are bound by non-disclosure rules. Include how to access/use Harvest Billing System. -
Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Start a forest conservation project
What I heard: The homepage is too complex. The content is too complex/technical for some people. The site should be easy to use. It's unclear who we are trying to reach through the site. There should be less choice confronting viewers. Viewers should have to register or they can't access the site. EA needs to seek endorsement from other higher profile orgs. The site should be structured based on level of knowledge. The site needs a resource for aiding or inspiring communities to start grassroots organizations. Some ministry people would/may comment in future but are bound by non-disclosure rules. Include how to access/use Harvest Billing System. -
What I heard: The homepage is too complex. The content is too complex/technical for some people. The site should be easy to use. It's unclear who we are trying to reach through the site. There should be less choice confronting viewers. Viewers should have to register or they can't access the site. EA needs to seek endorsement from other higher profile orgs. The site should be structured based on level of knowledge. The site needs a resource for aiding or inspiring communities to start grassroots organizations. Some ministry people would/may comment in future but are bound by non-disclosure rules. Include how to access/use Harvest Billing System.
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What I heard: The homepage is too complex. The content is too complex/technical for some people. The site should be easy to use. It's unclear who we are trying to reach through the site. There should be less choice confronting viewers. Viewers should have to register or they can't access the site. EA needs to seek endorsement from other higher profile orgs. The site should be structured based on level of knowledge. The site needs a resource for aiding or inspiring communities to start grassroots organizations. Some ministry people would/may comment in future but are bound by non-disclosure rules. Include how to access/use Harvest Billing System.
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What I heard: The homepage is too complex. The content is too complex/technical for some people. The site should be easy to use. It's unclear who we are trying to reach through the site. There should be less choice confronting viewers. Viewers should have to register or they can't access the site. EA needs to seek endorsement from other higher profile orgs. The site should be structured based on level of knowledge. The site needs a resource for aiding or inspiring communities to start grassroots organizations. Some ministry people would/may comment in future but are bound by non-disclosure rules. Include how to access/use Harvest Billing System.
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Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Protect more
Taryn's minutes: Dave Broadland-,” if you build it, they will come. “The forests are not in good hands, and people need to see what is really going on. Let’s challenge, stretch and grow people, there is a Q and A site place on the EA, in forms. We have to undo the simple sustainable forestry message we have been indoctrinate with for the past decades Site visits exceed site registration Anthony Britneff-phenomenal, but target audience, all have their own issues and need to access issues to make their political points, keep simple, like Michael Moore Simplify home page, focus subscription Who is the target audience? Everyone who has an interest in the health of BC forests, and that includes people in the ‘mindustry’. First Nations, major endorsements of NGOs may be useful, a great place for sharing like Watts/Britneff review. May not be useful to go anonymously Vicky Husband-visuals are incredibly important, shock value, people need to be informed, have used successfully Martin Watts-got lost, found much good to read, then eventually the story, some people want to post on it but ae too close to the work in it, can we be technical, ( and eventually simplify!) Michelle Connolly- one stop shop, a place to send grass roots, forestry info is misleading and ecologically illiterate, this is a tool to create more grass roots groups, to be scary, maybe too many sub headings in drop down menu. Push people, no more just “meeting people where they are at” (barf) Taryn Skalbania- is there a question answering possibility for EA? Perhaps some like me find it too intimidating, vast? Public, maybe we do not feel equipped? Maybe we do not feel equipped to post, comment Trevor Goward-how does this magnificent presence become more than a contribution to a changing paradigm how can it become more than a ground floor but the FOUNDATION, packaged into 5-6 or less entry points or conclusions, Dave’s video was to be the visual of the 6 or so pints of forestry woes, need to be re-brand as that and backed up with a written article to introduce site, who we are, what we want, why.. and how we are going to do it, Objective is forest liquidations; Horgan is changing the script TARGET AUDIENCE-find even ‘’100’’ people to take issues seriously, a help their level of understanding, absorb info, like the grass roots groups already out there that need tools and arm them. We need then really motivated, not just 6 disconnected, but Website launched a little prematurely, so open to suggestions GRASS ROOTS TYPE OF ORGANIZERS WHISTLE BLOWER TYPES IN GOVT AND INDUSTRY NEED ANONYMITY GROUPS, WATER STEWARDS ETC, KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG INTERCHANGEABLE TOO This is the new Psalm book, Bible for all of BC forest stewards, many Fairy Creek defenders belong, we need more involvement PUBLICITY- is it worth a successful add campaign, but finish website first, people need to do some writing, DB needs writing help, Ben and Sarah are only ones on our side, then we start promoting the site Email addresses for UBC, UVIC, applied sciences Make website easier to access Purposely stayed away from FB, too short, need to access website front page MICHELLE-the EA site… add to Conservation North banner announcements Link to websites Invite others to join Make info more accessible Will help DB work on this area of site, (community organizing and outreach) Communications/Publicity TOOLS on site- HOW TO WRITE A FPB COMPLAINT HOW TO ORGANIZE HOW TO CHALLENGE A FSP SHOW WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING SHOW LEVELS OF WHO WE CAN COMPLAIN TO, list of actions a community org can follow like, file a FPB compiling file and IH sect 26, file a C & E concern, call ombudsman, call MLA, file a petition, start a go fund me, write ministry, call DM etc A MIX OF INFO, DRAW IN WITH SHORT SUMMARIES, EXPAND TO BIG PICTURE We need more writers, content, comments, input DAVE BROADLAND- HAS CREATED A STEERING COMMITTEE group, to share info and ideas, comments and make suggestions available to all of us on the EA hone page , just log in COMMIT YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER TO DB’S SITE Why do we even need to ask what we can do Taryn to do up excel sheet, of name, organization and email address of as many editors of all media (print, CBC, Global etc) Eventually target them, media is not asking the write questions, writing the correct story, we can help them help us help to change forestry inBC! TREVOR- HAS OFFERED TO CLARIFY HIS input, 4 STEPS -FRONT END ISSUES, GET IT RIGHT, Reality of what is on the ground, Getting started, down and dirty, who to contact ANTHONY has offered to compile list of ubc and uvic emails, forestry departments etc -
Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Start a forest conservation project
Taryn's minutes: Dave Broadland-,” if you build it, they will come. “The forests are not in good hands, and people need to see what is really going on. Let’s challenge, stretch and grow people, there is a Q and A site place on the EA, in forms. We have to undo the simple sustainable forestry message we have been indoctrinate with for the past decades Site visits exceed site registration Anthony Britneff-phenomenal, but target audience, all have their own issues and need to access issues to make their political points, keep simple, like Michael Moore Simplify home page, focus subscription Who is the target audience? Everyone who has an interest in the health of BC forests, and that includes people in the ‘mindustry’. First Nations, major endorsements of NGOs may be useful, a great place for sharing like Watts/Britneff review. May not be useful to go anonymously Vicky Husband-visuals are incredibly important, shock value, people need to be informed, have used successfully Martin Watts-got lost, found much good to read, then eventually the story, some people want to post on it but ae too close to the work in it, can we be technical, ( and eventually simplify!) Michelle Connolly- one stop shop, a place to send grass roots, forestry info is misleading and ecologically illiterate, this is a tool to create more grass roots groups, to be scary, maybe too many sub headings in drop down menu. Push people, no more just “meeting people where they are at” (barf) Taryn Skalbania- is there a question answering possibility for EA? Perhaps some like me find it too intimidating, vast? Public, maybe we do not feel equipped? Maybe we do not feel equipped to post, comment Trevor Goward-how does this magnificent presence become more than a contribution to a changing paradigm how can it become more than a ground floor but the FOUNDATION, packaged into 5-6 or less entry points or conclusions, Dave’s video was to be the visual of the 6 or so pints of forestry woes, need to be re-brand as that and backed up with a written article to introduce site, who we are, what we want, why.. and how we are going to do it, Objective is forest liquidations; Horgan is changing the script TARGET AUDIENCE-find even ‘’100’’ people to take issues seriously, a help their level of understanding, absorb info, like the grass roots groups already out there that need tools and arm them. We need then really motivated, not just 6 disconnected, but Website launched a little prematurely, so open to suggestions GRASS ROOTS TYPE OF ORGANIZERS WHISTLE BLOWER TYPES IN GOVT AND INDUSTRY NEED ANONYMITY GROUPS, WATER STEWARDS ETC, KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG INTERCHANGEABLE TOO This is the new Psalm book, Bible for all of BC forest stewards, many Fairy Creek defenders belong, we need more involvement PUBLICITY- is it worth a successful add campaign, but finish website first, people need to do some writing, DB needs writing help, Ben and Sarah are only ones on our side, then we start promoting the site Email addresses for UBC, UVIC, applied sciences Make website easier to access Purposely stayed away from FB, too short, need to access website front page MICHELLE-the EA site… add to Conservation North banner announcements Link to websites Invite others to join Make info more accessible Will help DB work on this area of site, (community organizing and outreach) Communications/Publicity TOOLS on site- HOW TO WRITE A FPB COMPLAINT HOW TO ORGANIZE HOW TO CHALLENGE A FSP SHOW WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING SHOW LEVELS OF WHO WE CAN COMPLAIN TO, list of actions a community org can follow like, file a FPB compiling file and IH sect 26, file a C & E concern, call ombudsman, call MLA, file a petition, start a go fund me, write ministry, call DM etc A MIX OF INFO, DRAW IN WITH SHORT SUMMARIES, EXPAND TO BIG PICTURE We need more writers, content, comments, input DAVE BROADLAND- HAS CREATED A STEERING COMMITTEE group, to share info and ideas, comments and make suggestions available to all of us on the EA hone page , just log in COMMIT YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER TO DB’S SITE Why do we even need to ask what we can do Taryn to do up excel sheet, of name, organization and email address of as many editors of all media (print, CBC, Global etc) Eventually target them, media is not asking the write questions, writing the correct story, we can help them help us help to change forestry inBC! TREVOR- HAS OFFERED TO CLARIFY HIS input, 4 STEPS -FRONT END ISSUES, GET IT RIGHT, Reality of what is on the ground, Getting started, down and dirty, who to contact ANTHONY has offered to compile list of ubc and uvic emails, forestry departments etc -
Taryn's minutes: Dave Broadland-,” if you build it, they will come. “The forests are not in good hands, and people need to see what is really going on. Let’s challenge, stretch and grow people, there is a Q and A site place on the EA, in forms. We have to undo the simple sustainable forestry message we have been indoctrinate with for the past decades Site visits exceed site registration Anthony Britneff-phenomenal, but target audience, all have their own issues and need to access issues to make their political points, keep simple, like Michael Moore Simplify home page, focus subscription Who is the target audience? Everyone who has an interest in the health of BC forests, and that includes people in the ‘mindustry’. First Nations, major endorsements of NGOs may be useful, a great place for sharing like Watts/Britneff review. May not be useful to go anonymously Vicky Husband-visuals are incredibly important, shock value, people need to be informed, have used successfully Martin Watts-got lost, found much good to read, then eventually the story, some people want to post on it but ae too close to the work in it, can we be technical, ( and eventually simplify!) Michelle Connolly- one stop shop, a place to send grass roots, forestry info is misleading and ecologically illiterate, this is a tool to create more grass roots groups, to be scary, maybe too many sub headings in drop down menu. Push people, no more just “meeting people where they are at” (barf) Taryn Skalbania- is there a question answering possibility for EA? Perhaps some like me find it too intimidating, vast? Public, maybe we do not feel equipped? Maybe we do not feel equipped to post, comment Trevor Goward-how does this magnificent presence become more than a contribution to a changing paradigm how can it become more than a ground floor but the FOUNDATION, packaged into 5-6 or less entry points or conclusions, Dave’s video was to be the visual of the 6 or so pints of forestry woes, need to be re-brand as that and backed up with a written article to introduce site, who we are, what we want, why.. and how we are going to do it, Objective is forest liquidations; Horgan is changing the script TARGET AUDIENCE-find even ‘’100’’ people to take issues seriously, a help their level of understanding, absorb info, like the grass roots groups already out there that need tools and arm them. We need then really motivated, not just 6 disconnected, but Website launched a little prematurely, so open to suggestions GRASS ROOTS TYPE OF ORGANIZERS WHISTLE BLOWER TYPES IN GOVT AND INDUSTRY NEED ANONYMITY GROUPS, WATER STEWARDS ETC, KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG INTERCHANGEABLE TOO This is the new Psalm book, Bible for all of BC forest stewards, many Fairy Creek defenders belong, we need more involvement PUBLICITY- is it worth a successful add campaign, but finish website first, people need to do some writing, DB needs writing help, Ben and Sarah are only ones on our side, then we start promoting the site Email addresses for UBC, UVIC, applied sciences Make website easier to access Purposely stayed away from FB, too short, need to access website front page MICHELLE-the EA site… add to Conservation North banner announcements Link to websites Invite others to join Make info more accessible Will help DB work on this area of site, (community organizing and outreach) Communications/Publicity TOOLS on site- HOW TO WRITE A FPB COMPLAINT HOW TO ORGANIZE HOW TO CHALLENGE A FSP SHOW WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING SHOW LEVELS OF WHO WE CAN COMPLAIN TO, list of actions a community org can follow like, file a FPB compiling file and IH sect 26, file a C & E concern, call ombudsman, call MLA, file a petition, start a go fund me, write ministry, call DM etc A MIX OF INFO, DRAW IN WITH SHORT SUMMARIES, EXPAND TO BIG PICTURE We need more writers, content, comments, input DAVE BROADLAND- HAS CREATED A STEERING COMMITTEE group, to share info and ideas, comments and make suggestions available to all of us on the EA hone page , just log in COMMIT YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER TO DB’S SITE Why do we even need to ask what we can do Taryn to do up excel sheet, of name, organization and email address of as many editors of all media (print, CBC, Global etc) Eventually target them, media is not asking the write questions, writing the correct story, we can help them help us help to change forestry inBC! TREVOR- HAS OFFERED TO CLARIFY HIS input, 4 STEPS -FRONT END ISSUES, GET IT RIGHT, Reality of what is on the ground, Getting started, down and dirty, who to contact ANTHONY has offered to compile list of ubc and uvic emails, forestry departments etc
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Taryn's minutes: Dave Broadland-,” if you build it, they will come. “The forests are not in good hands, and people need to see what is really going on. Let’s challenge, stretch and grow people, there is a Q and A site place on the EA, in forms. We have to undo the simple sustainable forestry message we have been indoctrinate with for the past decades Site visits exceed site registration Anthony Britneff-phenomenal, but target audience, all have their own issues and need to access issues to make their political points, keep simple, like Michael Moore Simplify home page, focus subscription Who is the target audience? Everyone who has an interest in the health of BC forests, and that includes people in the ‘mindustry’. First Nations, major endorsements of NGOs may be useful, a great place for sharing like Watts/Britneff review. May not be useful to go anonymously Vicky Husband-visuals are incredibly important, shock value, people need to be informed, have used successfully Martin Watts-got lost, found much good to read, then eventually the story, some people want to post on it but ae too close to the work in it, can we be technical, ( and eventually simplify!) Michelle Connolly- one stop shop, a place to send grass roots, forestry info is misleading and ecologically illiterate, this is a tool to create more grass roots groups, to be scary, maybe too many sub headings in drop down menu. Push people, no more just “meeting people where they are at” (barf) Taryn Skalbania- is there a question answering possibility for EA? Perhaps some like me find it too intimidating, vast? Public, maybe we do not feel equipped? Maybe we do not feel equipped to post, comment Trevor Goward-how does this magnificent presence become more than a contribution to a changing paradigm how can it become more than a ground floor but the FOUNDATION, packaged into 5-6 or less entry points or conclusions, Dave’s video was to be the visual of the 6 or so pints of forestry woes, need to be re-brand as that and backed up with a written article to introduce site, who we are, what we want, why.. and how we are going to do it, Objective is forest liquidations; Horgan is changing the script TARGET AUDIENCE-find even ‘’100’’ people to take issues seriously, a help their level of understanding, absorb info, like the grass roots groups already out there that need tools and arm them. We need then really motivated, not just 6 disconnected, but Website launched a little prematurely, so open to suggestions GRASS ROOTS TYPE OF ORGANIZERS WHISTLE BLOWER TYPES IN GOVT AND INDUSTRY NEED ANONYMITY GROUPS, WATER STEWARDS ETC, KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG INTERCHANGEABLE TOO This is the new Psalm book, Bible for all of BC forest stewards, many Fairy Creek defenders belong, we need more involvement PUBLICITY- is it worth a successful add campaign, but finish website first, people need to do some writing, DB needs writing help, Ben and Sarah are only ones on our side, then we start promoting the site Email addresses for UBC, UVIC, applied sciences Make website easier to access Purposely stayed away from FB, too short, need to access website front page MICHELLE-the EA site… add to Conservation North banner announcements Link to websites Invite others to join Make info more accessible Will help DB work on this area of site, (community organizing and outreach) Communications/Publicity TOOLS on site- HOW TO WRITE A FPB COMPLAINT HOW TO ORGANIZE HOW TO CHALLENGE A FSP SHOW WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING SHOW LEVELS OF WHO WE CAN COMPLAIN TO, list of actions a community org can follow like, file a FPB compiling file and IH sect 26, file a C & E concern, call ombudsman, call MLA, file a petition, start a go fund me, write ministry, call DM etc A MIX OF INFO, DRAW IN WITH SHORT SUMMARIES, EXPAND TO BIG PICTURE We need more writers, content, comments, input DAVE BROADLAND- HAS CREATED A STEERING COMMITTEE group, to share info and ideas, comments and make suggestions available to all of us on the EA hone page , just log in COMMIT YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER TO DB’S SITE Why do we even need to ask what we can do Taryn to do up excel sheet, of name, organization and email address of as many editors of all media (print, CBC, Global etc) Eventually target them, media is not asking the write questions, writing the correct story, we can help them help us help to change forestry inBC! TREVOR- HAS OFFERED TO CLARIFY HIS input, 4 STEPS -FRONT END ISSUES, GET IT RIGHT, Reality of what is on the ground, Getting started, down and dirty, who to contact ANTHONY has offered to compile list of ubc and uvic emails, forestry departments etc
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Taryn's minutes: Dave Broadland-,” if you build it, they will come. “The forests are not in good hands, and people need to see what is really going on. Let’s challenge, stretch and grow people, there is a Q and A site place on the EA, in forms. We have to undo the simple sustainable forestry message we have been indoctrinate with for the past decades Site visits exceed site registration Anthony Britneff-phenomenal, but target audience, all have their own issues and need to access issues to make their political points, keep simple, like Michael Moore Simplify home page, focus subscription Who is the target audience? Everyone who has an interest in the health of BC forests, and that includes people in the ‘mindustry’. First Nations, major endorsements of NGOs may be useful, a great place for sharing like Watts/Britneff review. May not be useful to go anonymously Vicky Husband-visuals are incredibly important, shock value, people need to be informed, have used successfully Martin Watts-got lost, found much good to read, then eventually the story, some people want to post on it but ae too close to the work in it, can we be technical, ( and eventually simplify!) Michelle Connolly- one stop shop, a place to send grass roots, forestry info is misleading and ecologically illiterate, this is a tool to create more grass roots groups, to be scary, maybe too many sub headings in drop down menu. Push people, no more just “meeting people where they are at” (barf) Taryn Skalbania- is there a question answering possibility for EA? Perhaps some like me find it too intimidating, vast? Public, maybe we do not feel equipped? Maybe we do not feel equipped to post, comment Trevor Goward-how does this magnificent presence become more than a contribution to a changing paradigm how can it become more than a ground floor but the FOUNDATION, packaged into 5-6 or less entry points or conclusions, Dave’s video was to be the visual of the 6 or so pints of forestry woes, need to be re-brand as that and backed up with a written article to introduce site, who we are, what we want, why.. and how we are going to do it, Objective is forest liquidations; Horgan is changing the script TARGET AUDIENCE-find even ‘’100’’ people to take issues seriously, a help their level of understanding, absorb info, like the grass roots groups already out there that need tools and arm them. We need then really motivated, not just 6 disconnected, but Website launched a little prematurely, so open to suggestions GRASS ROOTS TYPE OF ORGANIZERS WHISTLE BLOWER TYPES IN GOVT AND INDUSTRY NEED ANONYMITY GROUPS, WATER STEWARDS ETC, KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG INTERCHANGEABLE TOO This is the new Psalm book, Bible for all of BC forest stewards, many Fairy Creek defenders belong, we need more involvement PUBLICITY- is it worth a successful add campaign, but finish website first, people need to do some writing, DB needs writing help, Ben and Sarah are only ones on our side, then we start promoting the site Email addresses for UBC, UVIC, applied sciences Make website easier to access Purposely stayed away from FB, too short, need to access website front page MICHELLE-the EA site… add to Conservation North banner announcements Link to websites Invite others to join Make info more accessible Will help DB work on this area of site, (community organizing and outreach) Communications/Publicity TOOLS on site- HOW TO WRITE A FPB COMPLAINT HOW TO ORGANIZE HOW TO CHALLENGE A FSP SHOW WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING SHOW LEVELS OF WHO WE CAN COMPLAIN TO, list of actions a community org can follow like, file a FPB compiling file and IH sect 26, file a C & E concern, call ombudsman, call MLA, file a petition, start a go fund me, write ministry, call DM etc A MIX OF INFO, DRAW IN WITH SHORT SUMMARIES, EXPAND TO BIG PICTURE We need more writers, content, comments, input DAVE BROADLAND- HAS CREATED A STEERING COMMITTEE group, to share info and ideas, comments and make suggestions available to all of us on the EA hone page , just log in COMMIT YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER TO DB’S SITE Why do we even need to ask what we can do Taryn to do up excel sheet, of name, organization and email address of as many editors of all media (print, CBC, Global etc) Eventually target them, media is not asking the write questions, writing the correct story, we can help them help us help to change forestry inBC! TREVOR- HAS OFFERED TO CLARIFY HIS input, 4 STEPS -FRONT END ISSUES, GET IT RIGHT, Reality of what is on the ground, Getting started, down and dirty, who to contact ANTHONY has offered to compile list of ubc and uvic emails, forestry departments etc
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Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Protect more
Yes, this is a worthwhile idea Michelle. The most powerful action we can take is working with other people at the community level. I can think of two ways of doing this on EA: The hard way and the easy way. The hard way is to develop written content by people who have successfully created such an animal, or perhaps create a video. You and James did a great job of describing why we need to get organized, and this applies to both the local and provincial level. Could you go one step further and talk about how Conservation North was actually created? That does require time and effort, but inspiring others to act is essential if that paradigm shift is going to occur. Perhaps an easier approach would be to develop a Q&A (forum) where people who are thinking of doing this can ask people who have already done it about what worked and what didn't. I can easily set such a Q&A forum up. What we need is a small group of people who have successfully created an active grassroots org, like you and Taryn and people like the Old Growth Revylution people (do you know Virginia and Sadie?) and Carol Toothil, Lannie Keller. Or do both ideas? What do you need to make this happen? -
Why I started a forest conservation project
David Broadland commented on David Broadland's record in Start a forest conservation project
Yes, this is a worthwhile idea Michelle. The most powerful action we can take is working with other people at the community level. I can think of two ways of doing this on EA: The hard way and the easy way. The hard way is to develop written content by people who have successfully created such an animal, or perhaps create a video. You and James did a great job of describing why we need to get organized, and this applies to both the local and provincial level. Could you go one step further and talk about how Conservation North was actually created? That does require time and effort, but inspiring others to act is essential if that paradigm shift is going to occur. Perhaps an easier approach would be to develop a Q&A (forum) where people who are thinking of doing this can ask people who have already done it about what worked and what didn't. I can easily set such a Q&A forum up. What we need is a small group of people who have successfully created an active grassroots org, like you and Taryn and people like the Old Growth Revylution people (do you know Virginia and Sadie?) and Carol Toothil, Lannie Keller. Or do both ideas? What do you need to make this happen? -
Yes, this is a worthwhile idea Michelle. The most powerful action we can take is working with other people at the community level. I can think of two ways of doing this on EA: The hard way and the easy way. The hard way is to develop written content by people who have successfully created such an animal, or perhaps create a video. You and James did a great job of describing why we need to get organized, and this applies to both the local and provincial level. Could you go one step further and talk about how Conservation North was actually created? That does require time and effort, but inspiring others to act is essential if that paradigm shift is going to occur. Perhaps an easier approach would be to develop a Q&A (forum) where people who are thinking of doing this can ask people who have already done it about what worked and what didn't. I can easily set such a Q&A forum up. What we need is a small group of people who have successfully created an active grassroots org, like you and Taryn and people like the Old Growth Revylution people (do you know Virginia and Sadie?) and Carol Toothil, Lannie Keller. Or do both ideas? What do you need to make this happen?
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Yes, this is a worthwhile idea Michelle. The most powerful action we can take is working with other people at the community level. I can think of two ways of doing this on EA: The hard way and the easy way. The hard way is to develop written content by people who have successfully created such an animal, or perhaps create a video. You and James did a great job of describing why we need to get organized, and this applies to both the local and provincial level. Could you go one step further and talk about how Conservation North was actually created? That does require time and effort, but inspiring others to act is essential if that paradigm shift is going to occur. Perhaps an easier approach would be to develop a Q&A (forum) where people who are thinking of doing this can ask people who have already done it about what worked and what didn't. I can easily set such a Q&A forum up. What we need is a small group of people who have successfully created an active grassroots org, like you and Taryn and people like the Old Growth Revylution people (do you know Virginia and Sadie?) and Carol Toothil, Lannie Keller. Or do both ideas? What do you need to make this happen?
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Yes, this is a worthwhile idea Michelle. The most powerful action we can take is working with other people at the community level. I can think of two ways of doing this on EA: The hard way and the easy way. The hard way is to develop written content by people who have successfully created such an animal, or perhaps create a video. You and James did a great job of describing why we need to get organized, and this applies to both the local and provincial level. Could you go one step further and talk about how Conservation North was actually created? That does require time and effort, but inspiring others to act is essential if that paradigm shift is going to occur. Perhaps an easier approach would be to develop a Q&A (forum) where people who are thinking of doing this can ask people who have already done it about what worked and what didn't. I can easily set such a Q&A forum up. What we need is a small group of people who have successfully created an active grassroots org, like you and Taryn and people like the Old Growth Revylution people (do you know Virginia and Sadie?) and Carol Toothil, Lannie Keller. Or do both ideas? What do you need to make this happen?
