British Columbia Wildfire Resilience Practitioners - Project Barriers

Over the past few months, I've been having conversations with people involved in forestry and climate resilience projects across British Columbia. It started mostly out of curiosity. I wanted to better understand what actually happens between recognizing that something needs to be done and seeing a project implemented on the ground. At the beginning, I thought project coordination might be one of the main missing pieces. The more people I talk to, the more I'm realizing that coordination is definitely an important part of the picture, but there are other challenges that can come even before that. I've heard about land tenure and access, regulations and approvals, funding, technical capacity, project timelines, economics, and the challenge of coordinating different organizations and priorities. And what has been especially interesting is that I haven't been getting the same answer from everyone. Someone working with a Community Forest may see the problem very differently from someone working with a First Nation, a funding organization or as a forestry professional. That's probably been the most useful part of these conversations for me. I started looking for an answer and instead I'm finding better questions. So, over the next few weeks, I'd like to share some of these conversations and what I've been learning from the people who have been generous enough to give me some of their time. I'm definitely still learning about this space, so I'd also love to hear from people working directly on these projects: What usually makes a good wildfire resilience or forest health project difficult to actually get off the ground?