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Board to audit two community forests
VICTORIA – Two community forest licences held by the Tumbler Ridge Community Forest Corp. and Little Prairie Community Forest Inc. will be audited, starting Sept. 26, 2016. The auditors will examine all operational planning, harvesting, roads, silviculture and wildfire protection practices for compliance with the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire Act. Tumbler […]
Audit of Forest Planning and Practices On Nisga’a Lands
The fourth compliance audit on Nisga’a Lands reported that the provincial government needs to act promptly to ensure…
Dunkley Lumber Slows Mountain Pine Beetle Spread
A Quesnel-area forest company is getting high marks from the Forest Practices Board for the way it managed mountain pine beetle, and for the light footprint it left on a recently-audited operating area
Board to audit forestry activities northeast of Princeton
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will examine the forest activities of Ka-Bar Resources Ltd., along the Princeton-Summerland Road near Osprey Lake, on Sept. 16. Auditors will examine planning, timber harvesting, road construction and maintenance, silviculture and fire prevention practices, carried out by Ka-Bar Resources Ltd. under six forest licences to cut, for compliance with […]
Board to Audit Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. and West Fraser Mills Ltd.
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. and West Fraser Mills Ltd. in early July. The audit will examine Ainsworth Lumber’s operations on pulpwood agreement #16 and West Fraser Mill’s operations on forest licence A20001. The companies’ operations are located throughout the 100 Mile […]
Central Coast Audit Finds Road Maintenance System Lacking
An audit of British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) and timber sale licensees in the Seaward-tlasta Business Area on the Central Coast of B.C. found that planning, silviculture, fire protection, harvesting on 27 cutblocks, and more than 500 kilometres of road were in compliance with legislation, with one exception.
