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Board to Audit Burns Lake Indian Band

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will be in Burns Lake in early June, to audit the forest planning and practices of the Burns Lake Indian Band. The audit will examine the band’s operations in non-replaceable forest licence A72919, located in the vicinity of Tercer Lake, southeast of Burns Lake. Auditors will examine operational planning; […]

Board Audit Will Examine Streamside Practices in Kootenay Forest District

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will conduct an audit this month looking at forest activities around streams located in Wyndell Box and Lumber Ltd.’s operating areas in the Kootenay Forest District. In some cases, forest practices, such as harvesting and road and stream crossing construction can have serious environmental impacts on water quality and […]

Board to Audit BCTS in the Lakes Timber Supply Area

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of the British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) program in the Nadina Forest District. The audit will examine BCTS’s operations in the Lakes timber supply area (TSA), located in North Central BC, which covers 1.12 million hectares. The TSA includes the communities of […]

Board Coming to the Queen Charlotte Islands to Audit BCTS and Timber Sale Licence Holders

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board is coming to the Queen Charlotte Islands in early May, to audit British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) and timber sale licence (TSL) holders. The audit will examine BCTS and TSL holders’ operations throughout the Queen Charlotte Islands timber supply area (TSA), including Sewell Inlet, Collison Point, and Massett Inlet. […]

Issue #4 – Winter 2010/11

I would like to once again thank those who participated in our surveys or met with us and provided frank and helpful input during the past few months. The results show that the Board continues to enjoy a healthy level of trust, in fact higher than in previous surveys. Eighty-four percent of our  survey respondents said there […]

Forest Practices Board Releases Results of Coastal Streams Investigation

Victoria – The Forest Practices Board today released the results of its special investigation into forest planning and practices near streams in coastal areas of British Columbia. The report concludes that forest practices near streams have improved since the Forest Practices Code was created. The disturbance of streams by logging has reduced significantly since the […]

Better forest practices needed near streams

Skeena Cellulose Inc. needs to improve some logging practices near streams, but otherwise it was found to have generally complied with the Forest Practices Code in an audit of Tree Farm Licence 1 near Terrace.

Board to Audit BCTS in Rocky Mountain Forest District

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of the British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) program in the Rocky Mountain Forest District. The audit will examine BCTS’s operations located throughout the Cranbrook and Invermere timber supply areas, and including portions of the Rocky Mountain Trench, Purcell Mountains, and Rocky Mountains. […]