Maintenance of the Hillcrest Forest Service Road Southern Vancouver Island in the South Island (Duncan) Forest District
A resident of Hillcrest Road, a forest service road near Lake Cowichan village on Vancouver Island, complained that the…
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Timber Salvage Harvesting and Fisher Management in the Nazko Area
Two trappers in the Nazko Area, near Quesnel complained to the Board that logging practices to salvage mountain pine beetle killed pine trees have removed fisher habitat on their trapline. They claim habitat loss will affect their livelihood and were concerned that salvage operations were not being managed to maintain fisher and other wildlife habitats. […]
Cattle Grazing on the Overton-Moody Range Unit
This investigation is about cattle grazing on the Overton-Moody Range Unit near Grand Forks. The complainant asserts…
Fire Tools and Enforcement at Homesite Creek in the Sunshine Coast Forest District
In 1994, the Ministry of Forests Small Business Forest Enterprise Program (SBFEP) in the Sunshine Coast Forest District…
Water Quality in the East Blackpool Watersheds
Residents in the East Blackpool area near Clearwater were concerned that forestry activities above their properties…
Logging Old-Growth Forest Near Port Renfrew
This investigation brings attention to the special value of trees of exceptional size or form, age or historical…
Appropriateness of a Stop Work Order for a Woodlot near Midway, BC in the Boundary Forest District
The complainant is a professional forester in good standing, a former woodlot extension forester and former president…
Road Maintenance at Little Cayuse Creek
A landowner complained that Interfor Corporation (Interfor) was not maintaining its roads and caused landslides into Little Cayuse Creek where he gets his water. He also asserted that government was not adequately enforcing Interfor’s maintenance requirements. The Board’s investigation determined that Interfor had not conducted adequate inspections to ensure no material adverse effect on forest […]
Wildlife and Cattle Grazing in the East Kootenay
The complainant, a retired range agrologist, is concerned that Crown rangelands in the East Kootenay area of the Rocky…
Plans for harvest near Nanoose Bay meet requirements
A Forest Practices Board complaint investigation report released today found that logging plans for a parcel of coastal Douglas-fir forest, known as District Lot 33, met, and in some cases exceeded, legislative requirements.
