Forest Resources and the Toba Montrose Creek Hydroelectric Project
Two organizations, Friends of Bute Inlet and the Sierra Club of BC, complained to the Forest Practices Board about the…
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Audit of Range Planning and Practices: Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District – Range Agreements for Grazing RAN077495 and RAN077496
In September 2016, the Forest Practices Board audited range planning and practices on five agreements for grazing in the Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District. This is the audit report for two of those agreements, RAN077495 and RAN077496. These two overlapping tenures are located north of Chase. Results for the other three range agreements are reported […]
Protection of Drinking Water in Community Watersheds Examined
An investigation of how well the FRPA protects drinking water in community watersheds has identified a number of improvements necessary to help ensure government objectives for drinking water quality and quantity are achieved.
CLOSING LETTER: Bonaparte Lake
The complaint is about forest development near the south end of Bonaparte Lake, 65 kilometres northwest of Kamloops.
Forest Practices Board Auditing Interfor’s Tree Farm Licence – TFL 10
Victoria – On Monday, June 8, 1998, the Forest Practices Board begins an audit of Tree Farm Licence (TFL) – 10, held by International Forest Products Ltd. The tree farm licence is located in the Sunshine Coast Forest District, north of Powell River in Toba Inlet. The audit will examine recent timber harvesting, road construction, […]
Board to audit two non-replaceable forest licences in Cariboo-Chilcotin
VICTORIA– Two non-replaceable forest licences, A56805, held by Yun Ka Whu’ten Holdings Ltd., and A73558, held by Sigurdson Bros. Logging Company Ltd., will be audited the week of Oct. 9, 2007. The Yun Ka Whu’ten Holdings operations are located in the vicinity of Anahim Lake, which is about 200 kilometres west of Alexis Creek and […]
Audit finds licensee did not comply with bridge construction legislation
VICTORIA – An audit of Gwa’Nak Resources Ltd., on the B.C. central coast, has found poor bridge construction practices. However, Gwa’Nak’s operational planning, timber harvesting, road construction and maintenance,silviculture and protection activities all complied with the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire Act, as well as the Great Bear Rainforest land-use order. “There […]
Harvesting and Road-Building on a Maple Ridge Woodlot
The Blue Mountain‐Kanaka Creek Conservation Group filed a complaint with the Board about the adequacy of planning and…
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…
Good Marks for Bridge Maintenance on Forestry Roads
A new special investigation gives good marks to the Ministry of Forests in maintaining bridges on forest service roads, the Forest Practices Board reported today.
