Registered Professional Forester (RPF), British Columbia

Canada · Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC, formerly ABCFP) · licensing

50practice questions written to this syllabus
5subjects

Format

Enrolment as a Forester in Training (FIT; ASFIT for non-accredited degrees), then six education modules with exams and applied assignments, a practice diary, and 24 months of qualifying work experience articled with a sponsor, then a registration application.

Sections

Over the years

Read on fpbc.ca (requirements and six-module pages). The old ABCFP registration exam has been replaced by this module system; the module exams test each module's content. Non-accredited degree holders also meet ASFIT core competency requirements.

Official source: https://www.fpbc.ca/requirements-to-become-an-rpf-or-rft/

Subjects this exam draws on

Silviculture of Important Tree Species3 questionsForest GIS, GNSS & LiDAR Analytics5 questionsWorking Plans & Forest Management Planning9 questionsForest Certification & Sustainable Forest Management7 questionsProfessional Forestry Practice, Ethics & Registration26 questions

Five practice questions, worked

Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.

1. The main plantation species of New Zealand and Chile is:

  1. Douglas-fir
  2. Sitka spruce
  3. Pinus radiata
  4. Pinus taeda
Answer and working

C. Pinus radiata

Pinus radiata, native to a few sites in California and Mexican islands, is the main plantation species of New Zealand and Chile. Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce and loblolly pine are less important there.

Silviculture of Important Tree Species · Key plantation and natural-forest species of other regions (Douglas-fir, loblolly pine, Pinus radiata, spruces)

2. A management plan is built on a corporate stand database that is edited continually. What should the plan record about the data?

  1. The name of the software used to view it
  2. Only the total area of the management unit
  3. The version and date of the data used
  4. The number of people who edited the database
Answer and working

C. The version and date of the data used

Stating the data version and date makes the plan reproducible and shows which harvests, fires and updates were included.

Forest GIS, GNSS & LiDAR Analytics · Forest stand and compartment databases

3. In North American practice, the planning units that play roughly the role of South Asian compartments are:

  1. Stands grouped into management units
  2. Townships of 36 square miles
  3. Counties and their road districts
  4. Watersheds of major rivers only
Answer and working

A. Stands grouped into management units

Stands are the basic units of description and treatment, grouped into management or planning units.

Working Plans & Forest Management Planning · Division of the forest: working circles, felling series, compartments

4. Which is one of the seven thematic elements of SFM?

  1. Maximum annual timber export
  2. Protective functions
  3. Number of forest guards
  4. Price of certified timber
Answer and working

B. Protective functions

Protective functions such as soil and water.

Forest Certification & Sustainable Forest Management · Sustainable forest management: concepts

5. A law that reserves the title 'Registered Professional Forester' but lets others do similar work under another name provides:

  1. Reserved practice for all forestry work
  2. Title protection
  3. A ban on any unregistered forest work at all
  4. Voluntary certification by a learned society
Answer and working

B. Title protection

Title protection reserves the name only; reserved practice reserves specified work to registrants.

Professional Forestry Practice, Ethics & Registration · Forestry as a profession: societies, regulators and titles

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