Road Slump Near Fiddler Creek, Northeast of Terrace, BC in the Terrace Forest District
The Board received a complaint in September 1996 about a slump of a newly constructed road cutslope into a small, unnamed stream (referred to in this report as “No-Name Creek”) approximately 45 kilometres northeast of Terrace, BC in the Fiddler Creek area. The complaint asserted that a licensee’s road construction activities caused the slump and contravened the Code and that the Ministry of Forests had not enforced the Code appropriately.
Restrictions on Motorized Vehicle Recreation in the Harold Price and Blunt Creek Areas, Cassiar Forest District
Through 1996 and early 1997, staff of the Bulkley/Cassiar Forest District assisted in carrying out a public process where recreational users met and developed a Recreational Access Management Plan (“RAMP”). That plan provided input for a Land and Resource Management Plan being developed by the Bulkley Valley Community Resources Board. The district manager has authority under the Act to make orders to restrict public recreational uses. However, the various recreational user groups wanted consensus based decision-making. The district manager agreed, stating early in the planning process that any such orders would be based on consensus among the user groups.
Winter recreational users reached agreement on most of the eighteen “winter use areas” identified. Unfortunately historical and on-going conflict between two recreational user groups — backcountry skiers and snowmobile users — led to three highly contentious areas being designated as “unresolved”. Those areas, with high recreational use and on-going conflicts between user groups, were left in limbo. There was no negotiated resolution. The district manager refused to impose resolution.
Restrictions on Motorized Vehicle Recreation in the Harold Price and Blunt Creek Areas
Forest Planning and Practices in Coastal Areas with Streams – Technical Report
In early 1997, the Forest Practices Board began a special investigation into forest planning and practices around streams in coastal British Columbia. Logging practices around streams were the subject of public controversy at the time. The Board decided to undertake this investigation in its role as public watchdog over effective forest management, and because streams and their adjacent riparian areas are of great interest to the public and to organizations involved in forestry
Forest Planning and Practices in Coastal Areas with Streams – Technical Report
Audit of Operational Planning: Ministry of Forests, Lakes Forest District Small Business Forest Enterprise Program
The operating area of the Lakes District SBFEP lies within the Lakes Timber Supplay Area (TSA), the eastern most TSA in the Prince Rupert Forest Region. The operating area extends over the entire district from Babine Lake in the north to the northern boundary of Tweedsmuir Park in the south. The apportionment for the SBFEP is 438,000 cubic metres which is approximately 29 percent of the allowable annual cut for the Lakes TSA. It is the fourth largest SBFEP apportionment in the province.
The objective of the audit was to determine if operational plans for the SBFEP in the Lakes District, approved between January 1, 1996, and October 7, 1996, complied with the requirements of the Code, including the transitional provisions.
