Stephanie Ewen

In celebration of National Forest Week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Stephanie Ewen, Manager of the Alex Fraser Research Forest, to explore the unique challenges and rewards of managing one of UBC Forestry’s key research forests. Stephanie shares her insights on balancing conservation, education, and operational forestry within this dynamic landscape. “I am responsible for managing UBC’s area-base crown tenure for timber management that is the Alex Fraser Research Forest. We provide research and provide demonstration and education opportunities, while using timber revenue to cover our staff and infrastructure costs. …there are seasonal routines such as spring planting, summer forest development and road building, and winter harvesting that set the cadence of my role. Interspersed with those activities, I get the pleasure of working with researchers to help facilitate their projects, and provide teaching support to UBC Forestry’s various field-courses,” said Ewen.