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Board Audit Will Examine Streamside Practices in Kootenay Forest District

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will conduct an audit this month looking at forest activities around streams located in Wyndell Box and Lumber Ltd.’s operating areas in the Kootenay Forest District. In some cases, forest practices, such as harvesting and road and stream crossing construction can have serious environmental impacts on water quality and […]

Board to Audit SWC Holdings Ltd. on the Mid-Coast of BC

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of SWC Holdings Ltd., in the North Island-Central Coast Forest District. The audit will examine SWC Holdings’ operations on forest licence A16848, located in Smith Inlet, approximately 70 km north of Port Hardy on the Central Coast. The audit will examine forest […]

Board Finds Good Forest Practices in Two Community Watersheds

VICTORIA – A pilot audit of two community watersheds in the Arrow Boundary Forest District has determined that forest practices are in compliance with legislated requirements in all significant respects, the Forest Practices Board reported today. “The board determined that current forest practices are effective at minimizing impacts to water quality,” said acting board chair […]

Co-operation Key to Survival of Coastal Forest Ecosystem

VICTORIA – An investigation report released today upholds a public complaint about proposed logging in a rare forest type near Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island. Local residents filed a complaint with the board when they discovered about one-third of the 64-hectare parcel of coastal Douglas-fir forest, known as DL 33, was slated to be logged, […]

Audit of Boundary area forestry operations finds issues

VICTORIA – An audit of BC Timber Sales (BCTS) and timber sale licence holders (TSL holders) in the Boundary timber supply area has found that forest planning, silviculture, fire protection, harvesting and road activities have complied with forest practices legislation, with one exception, according to a report released today. Auditors found that one TSL holder […]

Landslide risks raised by large rainfall storms

VICTORIA – Last month’s heavy rainstorms heighten concerns that large rainfall events are occurring more often than predicted, and that forestry standards need to be revisited to ensure roads and harvest areas are designed to withstand them, according to a report released today. The Forest Practices Board looked at landslide occurrence on Southern Vancouver Island […]

BCTS operations near Fort St. James pass audit

An audit of BC Timber Sales and 19 timber sale licensees’ in the Fort St. James District found that forest planning, silviculture, fire protection, harvesting and road activities were mostly in compliance with legislation, according to a report released today.