Transfer of Planning Objectives under FRPA: Stillwater Timberlands
Three complaints from the Powell River area; one from private citizens, one from the Powell River Parks and Wilderness…
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Tree Species Harvested In Areas Affected By Mountain Pine Beetles
British Columbia is in the midst of the most severe mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak on record. In 1999 the…
Government Enforcement and the Due Diligence Defence
The Sierra Club of Canada (B.C. Branch) asked the Board to investigate how the defence of due diligence is being…
Closing Letter: French Road Cattle
A resident of Kersley filed a complaint that wind-thrown Crown timber and excessive undergrowth have damaged her fence…
Managing Winter Recreation Conflicts near Valemount
In April 2007, a group of snowmobilers from the Valemount area asked the board to investigate whether it was…
Construction of a Logging Road Near Woodward Creek
On June 11, 2007, the Board received a complaint from an individual living near Port Alberni asserting that a woodlot…
Salvage Logging after a Wildfire at Sitkum Creek
In 2007, a wildfire burned in the Sitkum Creek Watershed, near Nelson. The Ministry of Forests and Range (MFR) has…
Biodiversity Conservation during Salvage Logging in the Central Interior of BC
British Columbia is engulfed in a province-wide mountain pine beetle outbreak. Salvaging value from the dead pine trees is a government priority. To facilitate the salvage effort, government increased the allowable annual cut (AAC) by 80 percent in the three most severely affected timber supply areas; the Lakes, Prince George and Quesnel TSAs, which are […]
Follow Up Report: Update on Control of Invasive Plants
Monitoring and control of invasive plants is important because of the serious environmental, economic, and health…
2010 Audit Summary Report
This report provides an overview of the Board’s compliance and enforcement auditing results published in 2010. The…
