Beetle Salvage Impacts on Guide Outfitters
A complaint filed by the Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia about its members’ businesses being harmed by increased harvesting of mountain pine beetle infested timber. The complainant is concerned with MOFR’s harvest monitoring; licensees harvesting species other than pine, leaving understory trees, using herbicide and government not having an overall plan for the salvage harvest.
Closing Letter: French Road Cattle
A resident of Kersley filed a complaint that wind-thrown Crown timber and excessive undergrowth have damaged her fence and allowed cattle to trespass on her land. The construction of the Hill Lake Forest Service Road (Hill Lake FSR) has also removed natural range barriers and is contributing to the problem.
Beetle Salvage Impacts on Guide Outfitters
Closing Letter – French Road Cattle
Logging in the Blackwater Pine Mushroom Management Area
The Blackwater stewardship group complained to the Board about a timber sale in the Blackwater Creek Valley, near D’Arcy. The group made up of local residents is concerned that logging will harm pine mushroom habitat, spotted owl habitat, and water values.
Logging in the Blackwater Pine Mushroom Management Area
Forest Practices in Hazardous Terrain and Domestic Water Use
A resident of Salmon Arm wrote to the Board with concerns about current and planned timber harvesting by Federated Co-Operatives Limited. The complainant was unsure of the licensee’s plans for the area and wondered if the licensee had adequately considered the potential for landslides and impacts to a formally un-named creek known as Chester Creek.
Government Enforcement and the Due Diligence Defence
The Sierra Club of Canada (B.C. Branch) asked the Board to investigate how the defence of due diligence is being implemented throughout the entire government enforcement system, in a forest practices context.
First Nations Interests and the Approval of Forest Harvesting near Ucluelet, B.C.
The Toquaht Nation filed a complaint to the Board about the approval of an amendment to the BC Timber Sales 2001/2006 Forest Development Plan. The Toquaht Nation asserts that the approval was unreasonable, as the government failed to adequately consult with and accommodate the Toquaht Nation, and the approval did not follow ministry policy and guidelines respecting First Nations’ interests.
