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Forestry Activities in the Skidegate Landscape Unit on Haida Gwaii
The Forest Practices Board received a complaint that alleged forestry activities by A&A Trading, Taan Forest, and BC Timber Sales in the Skidegate Landscape Unit (LU) on Haida Gwaii resulted in landslides, road failures and siltation of fish-bearing streams. In addition, the complainant believes that ecological representation targets for old forest in the Skidegate LU […]
Datlamen Road Public Review
The Haida Gwaii Marine Resource Group filed a complaint with the Board about a number of concerns related to the…
Forest Practices near Wilson Creek on the Sunshine Coast
The Forest Practices Board received a complaint that asserts that Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) did not adequately consider the impacts of forestry activities on a landslide into Wilson Creek. The complainant is concerned that SCCF did not conduct a geotechnical assessment of the landslide and that fine sediments from it will continue to be […]
Forest Management and Domestic Water Use near Princess Creek
On March 19, 2009, the Ainsworth Community Water Users (the complainants) submitted a complaint about Meadow Creek…
Approval of a Bridge Across the Babine River, near New Hazelton, BC in the Kispiox Forest District
In August 1996, the Forest Practices Board (the Board) received a complaint about the construction of a bridge across…
Effect of Powerline Clearing on Trappers near Upper Lay Creek
On May 11, 1999, the Board received a complaint from the BC Trappers Association on behalf of trappers on three…
Glyphosate Herbicide Impacts
A complaint was submitted to the Forest Practices Board on June 29, 2009 asserting that the BC government had not been…
Watershed Assessment in the Glade Community Watershed
In October 2018, the Board received a complaint about planned logging in the Glade community watershed, near Castlegar, BC. The Glade Watershed Protection Society was concerned that a watershed assessment was incomplete, outdated, and inconsistent with forest stewardship plan strategies to meet community watershed objectives. The Board considered whether the watershed assessment is consistent with the expected professional standards, and whether the licensees complied with legal requirements in the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA).
Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd. – Forest Practices and Government Enforcement
In May 2011, a resident of Meadow Creek, BC filed a complaint with the Forest Practices Board regarding the forestry practices of Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd. (MCC). The Board investigated and found that some of MCC’s roads, …
