Articles

Jane Wynn planting trees with children from the school

Maintaining The Mazinaw/Lanark Forest
- Frontenac News, May 2013

The six-member tree planting crew of Brinkman and Associates

Planning for One Hundred Years:
Planting Trees and Educating Children in Haiti
- The Clinton Foundation, April 2013

Joyce Murray in the Liberal Leadership debate.

VIDEO

Joyce Murray explains tree planting at Liberal Leadership Debate, and in a 1970s video.

Joyce Murray receives award at ceremony

Joyce Murray wins award for planting 500,000 trees

Garry Reece at the Aboriginal Business Awards

VIDEO

Garry Reece earns the ABA Individual Achievement Award

Cover of the book Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill

BOOK EXCERPT

Author Charlotte Gill reveals the treeplanters' life and mission in her award-winning book.

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Great global threats and sustainable land use

Edmund Zavit sitting on a stump

Reforestation pioneer Edmund Zavit remembered
November, 2012

Dirk Brinkman in the woods

One Billion and Counting
The Calvin Spark, Summer 2012

portrait of Dirk Brinkman by John Dowler

The Money Tree
Walrus Magazine, September 2011

portrait of Baba Brinkman

Fresh Prince of East Van: Baba Brinkman
Vancouver Magazine, June 2011

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Dirk Brinkman and Joyce Murray meet the Queen
June, 2010

map of China showing Yichun, Manchuria in red

Our Man in Manchuria: Supportive Governance for Forest Conservation and Restoration Markets - August 17th, 2007

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Once Were Planters
- Western Living, 2005

A herd of sheep

Treeplanters
- ForesTalk Magazine, Spring 2001

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600 Million and Growing - The Record

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Barca seeks funding for Costa Rica teak plantation - Business in Vancouver - June, 1998

Grainy photo of a tree planter

WSCA proposes changes to bill that threatens silviculture workers
- Joyce Murray - winter 1997

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FRBC policies short-change BC's forests
- Joyce Murray, winter 1996

A herd of sheep

Sheep browsing for silvilculture gets study
- Joyce Murray, autumn 1996

image of Dirk Brinkman holding planters tool innovated by Brinkman and Assocaites Reforestation

Staying True to His Roots
- Western Report

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Trading chainsaws for shovels - BC Report - May 1994

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El Salvador getting BC help in planting 75,000 new trees - Vancouver Sun - April 1994

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Carbon Sink Silviculture: a global warming strategy for Canada
- Joyce Murray, autumn 1993

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Joyce Murray branches out into business
- June 1993

image of the cover of Joyce Murray's 1992 thesis on Global Warming policy

Policy Analysis and Proposal for a Carbon Sink Silviculture Program - Joyce C. Murray, 1992

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Dirk Brinkman: putting down roots - Business in Vancouver

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Richmond and Brinkman comment on new FRDA agreement - Logger Magazine - 1991

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$1.4 billion Forest Renewal Program announced - Logger Magazine - April 1991

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Crusade in the woods - Readers' Digest - March 1990

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How dangerous is silviculture?
- Silviculture -1990

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Wilderness Prophet - Equinox Magazine

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A homegrown industry: growing older, growing up - Kootenay Review 1988

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Dirk Brinkman Contracting - Reforestation chaotic without planter collaboration - BC Business Magazine - April 1980

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Dirk Brinkman - Forestalk Magazine - 1979

 

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