Pine Beetle Salvage Logging and Water Flows near Williams Lake, BC
In December 2008, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from a rancher about proposed salvage harvesting of…
In December 2008, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from a rancher about proposed salvage harvesting of…
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 […]
The Ministry of Forests and Range’s enforcement of small scale salvage practices was found to be appropriate. However,…
VICTORIA – An investigation of a complaint by two trappers has concluded that the population of fisher — a fur-bearing mammal that is a species at risk in B.C. — is at a high risk of decline or local elimination in the Nazko region, west of Quesnel. The Nazko area experienced widespread tree mortality from mountain […]
A rancher complained that, during the summers of 2009 and 2010, his ranch southwest of Williams Lake had run short of…
A report on the forest industry’s harvesting of beetle-killed timber confirms that industry has been meeting govt’s expectations for concentrating harvesting on dead pine trees, but says the harvest of other kinds of trees is increasing more than expected in some areas of the province.
Between 1992 and 1994, there was an epidemic of western hemlock looper (the looper) in the Prince George and Robson…
In July 2007, a woodlot licensee in the Central Cariboo Forest District (the complainant) filed a complaint with the…
A complaint filed by the Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia about its members’ businesses being harmed by…