Silva Lining Forestry Consulting - Professional Forester Services for Prince Edward Island Woodlot Owners

Professional & Knowledgeable Forestry Management Services

Specializing in preparing plans for PEI’s Forest Enhancement Program

About Silva Lining

Silva Lining Forestry Consulting provides a wide range of forest management and planning services for forest landowners in Prince Edward Island. Silva Lining professional services, expertise and continuous learning and improvement will benefit Island Woodlot holders by helping them achieve their goals.

Professional Forestry Consulting Experience

As the owner/operator, I have more than 25 years of forestry experience. I completed my Bachelor of Science in Forestry in 1987 at the University of Alberta. I worked as a Forestry Consultant in Alberta and became a Professional Forester. In 1991, I moved to British Columbia to continue my forestry career with the Provincial Government. Initially, I monitored timber harvesting activities but later held positions focused on woodlot management, timber sales, timber pricing, and land use planning for the Ministry of Forests. I then left the Ministry of Forests and worked as a Senior Forester for SBS Forestry Consulting. I worked with Woodlot Licence holders to develop plans for their private and public forest land holdings.

How My Expertise Benefits Woodlot Owners

Woodlot owners have a range of values and uses they obtain of their forest. Silva Lining can assist them with identifying objectives and strategies to meet existing and potential goals. Silva Lining benefits woodlot holders by helping them meet the standards set in the Forest Enhancement Program for PEI in order to receive program incentives and credits while achieving their goals. These standards are set up and described in the Ecosystem-based Forest Management Manual (PDF).

Continuous Learning & Improvement

Forestry research into areas such as climate change and the ability of our forest species to adapt to these changes is ongoing. Research into forest pests and other areas of forest management continues. Silva Lining keeps current by attending workshops, video conferences, reading forestry articles and research as well as networking with other professionals managing forestry and environmental resources. Improvements are then made to forestry consulting services provided to woodland owners.

Lyle Badger Owner/Operator

I grew up on a farm in Northern Alberta near the City of Grande Prairie. During my early years, I spent plenty of time outdoors helping on the family farm. One of the farm lots was mostly forest with some farm land cleared to grow forage and cereal crops. It was there and on the adjacent public forest land that I began to appreciate many of the forest values.

In the spring, while checking our cattle we would go for walks, picking wild mushrooms to be prepared and enjoyed at a later meal. In early summer, we would pick wild strawberries to top cakes for dessert. We camped with friends and family, where I enjoyed listening to a ruffed grouse drumming on a nearby log or seeing other wildlife interact in their natural habitat.

In the winter, we would put on cross country skis and set track on some of the old firewood trails. In 1978/79, we built a log cabin out of trees that were not scarred by fires that had burned through the forest decades earlier. The family still holds gatherings at the cabin to enjoy a meal by the fire.