Training Opportunities

Upcoming Training

• May 5 & 6 Compliance and Enforcement VQO Inspection Training, Chilliwack
• May 20 & 21 Effectiveness Evaluation Training Coast Region, Chilliwack
• June 2 & 3 Effectiveness Evaluation Training Southern Interior Region, Vernon
• June 16 & 17 Effectiveness Evaluation Training Northern Interior Region, Prince George/Vanderhoof.

To register contact your regional Visual Specialists or jacques.marc@gov.bc.ca at Forest Practices Branch.

Visual Landscape Inventory Training

The VLI Procedures & Standards Manual outlines the ministry's procedures and standards for undertaking a Visual Landscape Inventory (VLI) and can be found here.

The VLI training student manual is the actual student manual for the 3-day VLI training course and can be found here. It is important to note that VLI work needs to be undertaken by qualified personnel having successfully taken the 3-day VLI training course offered by the BC Ministry of Forests. The 3-day VLI training course and its content are currently being refreshed with the intent to offer the 3-day VLI training course in the spring of 2009 depending on the level of interest from potential participants. Announcements and interest inquiries will be made in early April 2009 with a target delivery date in late April or May 2009. For more information, contact the Visual Landscape Inventory Specialist listed in the contacts section.

Visual Quality Resource Monitoring Training

Protocol for Visual Quality Effectiveness Evaluations Procedures and Standards

This document explains procedures and standards for evaluating whether forestry operations are meeting established visual quality objectives in designated scenic areas.

The main focus of these procedures is on measuring viewing conditions for clearcut, patch-retention and partial cut alterations in mid-distance view, i.e. 1–8 km from the viewpoint, which account for the majority of current alterations in scenic areas in British Columbia.
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Visual Landscape Design Training Manual

The purpose of this manual is to present concepts and principles which will assist people in developing design solutions to meet visual quality objectives (VQOs). This manual has been prepared as a reference document in support of the design phase of the visual landscape management (VLM) process.
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Visual Landscape Design - Interactive Multimedia Training

This page provides information and access to the different available versions of the VLD training. All packages contain approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes of voice-based training broken into 23 individual lessons.
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