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Logging in Skidegate Channel Damaged Viewscape

VICTORIA – A complaint about the visual impacts of logging on Haida Gwaii was upheld in a Forest Practices Board report released today. The logging in question took place in 2009 on the north side of Skidegate Channel, west of Queen Charlotte City, in a significant travel corridor for tourists, fishermen and residents of Haida […]

Board to audit forestry operations near Chetwynd

VICTORIA – The board will audit the forest practices of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. on Tree Farm Licence 48, starting August 20, 2012. The audit will examine operational planning, harvesting, roads, silviculture, fire preparedness and fire hazard abatement for compliance with forest practices legislation. The audit area is about 30 kilometres north of Hudson Hope […]

Audit of woodlots on Vancouver Island finds good practices

An audit of forestry activities on eight woodlots on Southern Vancouver Island concludes the woodlot owners complied with B.C.’s forestry legislation, according to a report released today.

Forestry roads a risk to grizzly bears in Kettle Granby

VICTORIA – An investigation of a public complaint about management of a threatened grizzly bear population in the Kettle-Granby area has found that the B.C. government has not effectively managed the risk forestry roads pose to the bears and forestry licensees have not met the road density limits recommended by government. “Government does not have […]

Faster action, incentives needed to protect marbled murrelet habitat

A Forest Practices Board special report released today says potential habitat for threatened species is being lost to forest development while the process for defining habitat areas drags on.

Salvage logging near Quesnel has negative impacts on species at risk

VICTORIA – An investigation of a complaint by two trappers has concluded that the population of fisher — a fur-bearing mammal that is a species at risk in B.C. — is at a high risk of decline or local elimination in the Nazko region, west of Quesnel. The Nazko area experienced widespread tree mortality from mountain […]

Audit of Ka-Bar Resources near Princeton finds good practices

An audit of Ka-Bar Resources Ltd.’s forestry activities, 45 kilometres northeast of Princeton, found compliance with B.C.’s forestry legislation, according to a report released today.

Woodlot near Quesnel passes forestry audit

Planning and forestry activities on a woodlot in the Quesnel Forest District, in central British Columbia, met all legal requirements, according to an audit report released today.

Investigation highlights importance of EBM spirit and intent

VICTORIA – A complaint about logging of old forest on Sonora Island on B.C.’s South Coast has highlighted the importance of following the spirit and intent of ecosystem-based management (EBM). Residents of Sonora Island complained that TimberWest Forest Corp. was logging old-growth forest and rare and endangered plant communities in the Great Bear Rainforest. While […]