Audit of Timber Harvesting and Road Activities: TFL 19 – Doman-Western Lumber Ltd.
This is a report on a compliance audit of Tree Farm Licence 19 held by Doman-Western Lumber Ltd. The audit examined…
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Timber Harvesting in Mountain Caribou Habitat
Mountain caribou are at risk in the southern two-thirds of British Columbia. The government has identified habitat loss…
Cattle and Horse Grazing near Choelquoit Lake
In November 2002, a guide outfitter (the complainant) asked the Board to investigate several range use issues on the…
Range Use Near Midway, BC
The complainant has operated a woodlot on his land near Midway, 60 kilometres east of Osoyoos, for 30 years. For the…
Salvage Logging after a Wildfire at Sitkum Creek
In 2007, a wildfire burned in the Sitkum Creek Watershed, near Nelson. The Ministry of Forests and Range (MFR) has…
Forestry Audit: BCTS and Timber Sale Licensees – Quesnel Natural Resource District Portion of the Cariboo-Chilcotin Business Area
In June 2019, the Board audited BC Timber Sales’ (BCTS) forestry operations in the Quesnel Natural Resource District portion of BC Timber Sales’ (BCTS) Cariboo – Chilcotin Business Area. The audit was a full scope compliance audit that included those operations that took place over a one-year period starting in June 2018. During this period […]
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…
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 […]
Gilpin Creek Debris Slide
In the spring of 2011, water from a trough located above Gilpin Creek, on the Overton-Moody Range Unit near Grand Forks…
