The operational planning; timber harvesting; silviculture; road construction, maintenance, and deactivation; and fire protection activities carried out by BCTS and its timber sale licence holders throughout the Queen Charlotte Islands TSA, complied with forest practices legislation.
Audit: BCTS – Queen Charlotte Islands
Conservation of Biological Diversity: An Assessment of the Application of Criteria and Indicators
This report by the Forest Practices Board sets out what the Board believes to be a comprehensive, verifiable and science-based framework within which to begin to assess the effectiveness of forest practices in conserving biological diversity.
Of the forest values identified in the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA), biodiversity is considered by many to be the most complex to manage and conserve.Biodiversity encompasses a variety of ecological conditions that change naturally over time and to be effective at conserving biodiversity, it is important that forest companies, agencies and government understand, manage and conserve the important elements of biodiversity over time.
Conservation of Biological Diversity: An Assessment of the Application of Criteria and Indicators
Closing Letter: Forest Practices Board’s report on management of Haida Gwaii goshawks complaint
The Sierra Club’s Haida Gwaii group filed a complaint regarding development within the Bonanza Wildlife Habitat Area and concern with the management of the Northern Goshawk on Haida Gwaii. The complainant alleged that inadequate protection of foraging habitat, a one per cent timber-supply cap on protection measures, lack of co-ordination between licensees operating in the area, and failure to require nest surveys prior to harvesting could put goshawk habitat at risk.
Closing Letter – Management of Northern Goshawk on Haida Gwaii
Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: S.W.C. Holdings Limited – FL A16848
S.W.C Holdings Limited’s forest planning and practices on forest licence A16848 in the Mid-Coast Timber Supply area complied with forest practices legislations.
S.W.C. Holdings Limited – FL A16848
Logging in Marbled Murrelet Habitat on Queen Charlotte Islands-Haida Gwaii
The Gowgaia Institute filed a complaint about the Husby Group of Companies harvesting in areas that should be reserved for marbled murrelets. The areas in question were in the Eden Lake landscape unit, on Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands.
