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For National Forestry Week each year, Western Forest Products and its predecessors have offered a popular public forestry tour. The September 26, 2009 tour was enjoyed by about 70 participants in two school buses.

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Participants met at the Safeway parking lot and departed...	The buses drove south to Dixon Road and proceeded through...	Stop 1 was an introduction and demonstration of active...	Colin Palmer, Regional District chair at lower left. The...	Introduction by co-tour leaders Rudi Van Zwaaij with...
Russ Parsons of Tilt Contracting gave a demo of...	"Tilt" contracting;. Get it? The operator can sit level...	This Harvester can grapple the tree, fell, de-limb, buck...	These 6 tree were on the ground about 10 minutes later	Stuart Glen, explaining concepts of risk management...
Shane Graham, Ocean View Helicopters, fascinated the tour...	Tree crown modification protects the edges of cut blocks...	an alternate to helicopter windfirming (not shown) is to...	Sorting in readiness for hauling by truck	logs of similar size and quality are sorted to piles for...
The stand in the mid-backgound was cut in 1988 and...	Next stop was an active road construction demo by Kevin...	The rubble seen on the left was blasted in one single...	Rock holes are drilled with this machine.	A view of Lois Lake on the way down the hill to...

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