Nick Pickles and Allie Affleck

The Three Rivers Community Forest is a project the City of Quesnel is working towards along with First Nations partners in the area. Nicholas Pickles and Allie Affleck are two of the people who will be managing the community forest. Pickles is the general manager and Affleck is the forestry manager. “One of the great things about the community forest, there’s so many different ways that we can work with the various community stakeholders and identify what we all want out of the community forest,” Pickles said. “It’s really about community engagement and getting that input, which is a really exciting part of it all.” …One of the advantages of a community forest is that it exists solely to serve the community. …Any trees that are harvested will be a source of revenue for the community forest and therefore the community as local contractors will do the harvesting and then the community forest will sell lumber.