Dave Coates

This collection houses work done by researcher Dr. Dave Coates.

Coates has a BSF (UBC), M.Sc. (Oregon State University) and Ph.D (UBC) in silviculture and forest ecology. He has lived in Smithers since 1979 and he has held the position of Research Silviculturist with the B.C. Forest Service since 1989. He is the leader of the Date Creek silvicultural systems experiment; an internationally recognized forest dynamics experiment that has integrated silviculture with forest ecology and provided silvicultural solutions for biodiversity problems. He is also a lead developer of the complex stand dynamics simulator SORTIE-ND.

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More Info	https://bvcentre.ca/pdf/Events/Conferences/SORTIE/Proceedings/7-Coates.pdf