First of all, don't be frightened by the prospect. Take a specific issue of direct and current relevance to forests and forestry in B.C., and of relevance to improving the situation or our collective knowledge of the situation. Formulate the specific issue as a single major question. Do due-diligence preliminary research or enquiries to ensure that your major question has not already been satisfactorily answered by others in the past. Begin to let other interested people know about your plan, and try to get them involved.
Any suggestions are welcome now.
The issue, as defined by the title of this project, Forests and Forestry in British Columbia, Canada, is too broad for consideration in detail as a whole. The overall forests and forestry issue should be broken into more manageable issues for detailed consideration. Since the working group interacts via the internet, it should be easier than usual to incorporate contributors with a range of viewpoints, to produ ce some interesting and useful reports. It will be beneficial to have several different research activities co-ordinated under a single project information framework. Where specific research projects on B.C. forest or forestry issues are already taking place, it will be useful to refer to them from a central online information page.