As many of you have seen, we are actively recruiting for a new Chair for our Board and we hope to have the new chair in place early in 2023. In the meantime, the Board and staff continue to carry out our work auditing and investigating forest and range practices, and identifying opportunities for improvement […]
In early 2007 the Forest Practices Board began a special investigation of fire hazard assessment and abatement. As a…
British Columbia’s Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) and Wildfire Act (WA) are at the core of the provincial…
This investigation examines a complaint by the Fraser Headwaters Alliance (the complainant) about whether operational…
The special investigation compared reforestation efforts in the Quesnel, Nadina and Vanderhoof forest districts with…
In September 2016, the Forest Practices Board audited range planning and practices on five agreements for grazing in the Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District. This is the audit report for one of those agreements, RAN077749. This tenure is located north of Cache Creek. Results for the other four range agreements are reported separately. The audit […]
25 Years of Independence In 2020, the Forest Practices Board will be 25 years old. When it was first established in 1995, one of the most important attributes of the Board was that it would act independently and work on behalf of the public interest. From its inception, the concept of independence was built into […]
Harvesting on Crown land in British Columbia comes with reforestation obligations. Following logging, forest companies…
