This is the Board’s report on a compliance audit of Tree Farm Licence 54 (TFL 54) held by International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor). The licence area is located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in 24 separate geographical blocks. Ninety-two percent of the area of TFL 54 is located in Clayoquot Sound.

This is a report on a limited scope compliance audit of the Mid-Coast Forest District SBFEP. The audit examined the SBFEP’s operational planning (including forest development plans, silviculture prescriptions, and logging plans); timber harvesting; and road construction, maintenance and deactivation activities for the period of August 9, 1998, to August 31, 1999.

Before completing this report, the Board considered written representations from the Mid-Coast Forest District as required under section 182 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act (the Act). The Board also considered the Report from the Auditor along with supporting audit evidence.

This is the Board’s report on a compliance audit1 of Tree Farm Licence 25 held by Western Forest Products Limited (WFP). The Report from the Auditor (Part B) describes the operating areas of the forest licence, the portion of the licence audited and the scope of the audit.

In July 1999, the Board received a complaint from an individual who works as a faller. He was required, as part of his job, to cut down small trees in a specific cutblock, but was concerned that was not a sound forest practice.

In June 1999 the complainant was hired by a contractor to work on a cutblock in Tree Farm Licence 46, administered by TimberWest Forest Ltd. (“the licensee”). The cutblock was beside the McClure River, a tributary of the Caycuse River, 35 kilometres west of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island.

This is the Board’s report on a compliance audit of the SBFEP in the Port McNeill Forest District. The operating areas of the SBFEP are located on the northern portion of Vancouver Island, numerous islands in Johnstone Strait and the adjacent mainland coast from Knight Inlet north to Seymour Inlet.

The audit examined the SBFEP’s operational planning, timber harvesting, silviculture, fire protection, and road construction, maintenance and deactivation, for the period July 1, 1997, to July 15, 1998, to assess compliance with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and related regulations (the Code).

In May 1997, the Friends of Clayoquot Sound-Forest Watch provided written review comments to International Forest Products Ltd., Westcoast Division on its Catface Planning Area forest development plan for Tree Farm Licence 54. They expressed concern that a proposed road was located within a 50-metre riparian reserve zone required by the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel Recommendations and identified in the forest development plan for Pineetle Creek. Encroachment by roads in riparian areas is generally discouraged by both the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel Recommendations.