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Impacts of Mountain Pine Beetle Salvage Logging on a Trapline

June 20, 2010
Natural Resource Region: skeena
District: nadina

In January 2010, the Forest Practices Board received a co from a Colleymount resident who farms, logs, and holds a range and a trapping tenure. The complainant believes that harvesting and road construction have reduced the available amount of wildlife habitat, disrupted the natural movement of animals and that his tramplaintpping tenure can no longer support a viable harvest of furbearers.

The investigation considered the following questions:

  1. Did BCTS comply with legislated requirements for biodiversity management and public consultation when it planned harvesting within the trapline?
  2. Has harvesting and road building affected the population of furbearers?
The Board conducts its work throughout British Columbia, and we respectfully acknowledge the territories of the many Indigenous Peoples who have lived on these lands since time immemorial.
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