Practice of professional forestry

Forestry use only

Describe the practice of professional forestry and the significance of regulated and reserved practice.

Describe the practice of professional forestry and the significance of regulated and reserved practice.

Practice of Pro forestry is: professional advice or services relating to trees, forests, forest lands, forest resources, forest transportation systems, or forest ecosystems, and applies to all environments including natural or managed, rural or urban.

By having both regulated and reserved practices BC is able to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the public and environment are maintained.

Explain the steps to determine when a service is a forestry reserved practice.

The service is related to: Trees, forests, forest lands, forest resources, forest transport systems, or forest ecosystems.

The service involves: Planning, advising, directing, approving, supervising, engaging, or reporting any ancillary services or actives.

• The service (professional work) requires, for protective purposes: the experience or technical knowledge of a registered professional forester or registered forest technologist in order to hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public, including the protection of the environment and the health and safety of the workplace.

• The service (professional work) includes: one of the 36 identified areas of practice.

• The service (professional work) is specified in: the Foresters Act definition of the practice of professional forestry.

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Identify the common areas of practice of forest professionals.

There are 36 identifiable areas of practice for forest professionals.

If you are not an RPF you many be able to do all of these activates unless directly supervised. Unless the individual holds a limited license.

Describe the limitations on reserved practice for various categories of registrants and implications for supervision of forestry reserved practice.

RPF can engage in the Full scope of practice

RFT can engage in four areas of practice 1. Silvics 2. measurements 3. forest operations 4. forest protection.

Describe obligations regarding the identification of professional work

Professional forestry work must be identified as such by responsible members who must include a legible name, professional designation, signature (only required for hard copy submissions) and a date

Describe obligations regarding continuing professional development.

Registrants must complete and report a minimum 30 hours of CPD a year. A CPD reporting year is December 1 to November 30 (Bylaw 10-1(3)). Registrants are free to choose any learning activities that align with the topics below (Bylaw 10- 1(5)):

1. Professional competencies  Standards of ethical and professional conduct;  Indigenous reconciliation; and  Forest stewardship.

2. Areas of Professional Practice This category includes any learning focused on a registrant’s professional practice area(s). The 36 areas of professional practice are found in Appendix A.

3. Interpersonal Competencies This category includes any learning focused on competencies such as relationship building, conflict management, negotiation, problems solving, judgement, communications, teamwork, and collaboration.

Describe the FPBC practice advisory program.

Forest Professionals BC administers a practice advisory program to provide practice guidance to registrants to assist them in dealing with professional or ethical issues. The Practice Advisory Program is established for and provides advice for all registrants, from trainees to late career forest professionals.

Regulated practice

defines the broad area of practice where the ABCFP must regulate registrants. The regulated practice of professional forestry means the provision of advice or services in relation to trees, forests, forest lands, forest resources, forest transportation systems or forest ecosystems.

Reserved practice

means the advice and services provided can only be done by a registered forest professional. This applies when the advice or services of the regulated practice could impact the protection of the environment or affect the safety, health, and welfare of the public. In these circumstances, the experience or technical knowledge of a professional forester (RPF) or registered forest technologist (RFT) is needed and legally required.

Collaboration: what do you do if you have to submit a professional paper in which many peers are present?

Often two or more parties collaborate on professional forestry work. The collaboration may entail more or less equal efforts by the parties or there may be a leading author of the work. The lead writer or project coordinator must sign and identify himself or herself on the professional work with a signature block and signature, and while taking overall accountability for the work, shares accountability for work prepared by others. If the submitted professional work is prepared by several members with roughly equal roles and accountability, all the forest professionals must identify themselves with their professional designations on the work. If the forest professionals who prepare the professional work agree on how it will be identified (by a lead forest professional or shared identification), that arrangement is generally acceptable to the association. The accountability for the work and or parts thereof should be clear from any arrangement on identification of the professional work by responsible members.