Post-Fire Site Rehabilitation: Final Report
The special investigation report examined government’s efforts at rehabilitating damage to forests caused by fire…
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2010 Audit Summary Report
This report provides an overview of the Board’s compliance and enforcement auditing results published in 2010. The…
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…
Timber Harvesting in Beetle-Affected Areas – Is it Meeting Government’s Expectations?
British Columbia is in the midst of a large-scale salvage program, the likes of which has never been seen. There is…
Biodiversity Conservation during Salvage Logging in the Central Interior of BC
British Columbia is engulfed in a province-wide mountain pine beetle outbreak. Salvaging value from the dead pine trees is a government priority. To facilitate the salvage effort, government increased the allowable annual cut (AAC) by 80 percent in the three most severely affected timber supply areas; the Lakes, Prince George and Quesnel TSAs, which are […]
Closing Letter – Unauthorized Damage to a Range Development
In August 2016, the Board received a complaint asserting that a timber sale licence holder (TSL holder) under the BC Timber Sales program had removed portions of a fence on the complainant’s range agreement area, within the 100 Mile House Natural Resource District, to accommodate road access for timber harvesting. The complainant alleged that the […]
Follow Up Report: Update on Control of Invasive Plants
Monitoring and control of invasive plants is important because of the serious environmental, economic, and health…
