Thank you very much to both of you for being here today.
I'm going to start with Ms. Nicholls.
We've had this mountain pine beetle epidemic. We've had the fires in the last couple of years. You talked about lessons learned, about how we can create forests in the future that have better resilience through restoration management techniques.
I'm wondering if you could perhaps expand on some of that in terms of how the replanting programs are going—we obviously have a lot of hectares to replant—and whether there is some science behind how you decide what we're going to replant in those areas. Are we going to replant lodgepole pine? Are we going to replant a mix?
UBC has done a lot of work in projecting what the climate envelopes will be over the next 50 or 100 years. Maybe we should be planting Douglas fir in areas that used to have lodgepole pine and spruce—things like that.
Are we trying to learn from the past to create more diverse forests that will have resilience to whatever pest comes along, whether it's a pine beetle or a fir beetle or a spruce beetle?