In January 2010, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from a Colleymount resident who farms, logs, and holds a range and a trapping tenure. The complainant believes that harvesting and road construction have reduced the available amount of wildlife habitat, disrupted the natural movement of animals and that his trapping tenure can no longer support […]
This Bulletin describes the defences of due diligence and mistake of fact under the Forest and Range Practices Act…
On September 27, 1999, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from the Chilliwack Field Naturalists (the…
In February, 2017, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from the Lhtako Dene First Nation asserting that planned harvesting in two landscape units by Tolko Industries Ltd. will impact moose populations and landscape-level biodiversity in their Traditional Territory. The Lhtako Dene also said that communication with Tolko has been difficult and that they did […]
In March 2001, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from the Council of the Haida Nation (the complainant)…
The Board investigated a complaint from a community group about the potential visual impacts of a licensee’s planned logging near Lillooet. This area has visual quality objectives (VQOs), and the licensee’s forest stewardship plan contained results and strategies to meet these objectives. The complainant was concerned that planned logging would not meet the VQOs, and […]
This report concerns a 2011 investigation by the Forest Practices Board into fire management planning in British…
Welcome to the second issue of Eye on B.C.’s Forests, the Forest Practices Board’s newsletter. Eye on B.C.’s Forests provides an overview of the Board’s recent work, including trends and issues analysis and previews of upcoming reports and projects. Eye on B.C.’s Forests is distributed to our e-mail subscribers, as well as posted on our website. We hope […]
