Membership Statistics
Monthly Membership Statistics
Monthly changes are published in BC Forest Professional magazine. These stats serve to keep members and the public informed about the names of new ABCFP members, members who have changed their status and of people who are no longer entitled to practice professional forestry in BC.
Annual Membership Statistics
| Membership Totals1 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
|
Registered Members
|
RPFs (active)
|
2993
|
2939
|
2916
|
2865
|
2815 |
|
RFTs2 (active)
|
1457
|
1416
|
1391
|
1363
|
1356 |
|
RPFs (retired)
|
314
|
344
|
370
|
399
|
401 |
|
RFTs (retired)
|
50
|
63
|
66
|
80
|
74 |
|
RPFs (life)
|
172
|
170
|
156
|
149
|
151 |
|
RFTs (life)
|
1
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2 |
| |
|
Enrolled Members
|
FITs2
|
233
|
235
|
252
|
276
|
295 |
|
FPs2
|
25
|
15
|
13
|
6
|
2 |
|
TFTs
|
96
|
120
|
147
|
159
|
180 |
| |
|
Special Permits
|
Visiting Professional
Foresters
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0 |
|
Transferring Professional
Foresters
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0 |
|
Limited Licensees
|
9
|
8
|
7
|
7
|
6 |
| |
|
Honourary Members
|
Honourary Members
|
18
|
17
|
17
|
18
|
18 |
| |
|
Associate Members
|
Associate Members2, 5
|
122
|
128
|
131
|
138
|
145 |
|
|
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP3
|
5352
|
5326
|
5336
|
5333
|
5320 |
|
Leave of Absence4
|
244
|
217
|
200
|
205
|
188 |
1 The numbers shown here are as of November 30th each year.
2 These numbers include members who are in more than one category (e.g. RFT and FP) at the same time.
3 The totals record the actual number of persons and do not double count persons who are members of more than one category.
4 Members on leave of absence are reflected in the totals above.
5 This category includes all Associate Members: For 2015 - NRP (2), TNRPs (2), ATC (69), ATE (61) and SAS (4)