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Doman-Western Gets Clean Audit from the Forest Practices Board

Victoria – Doman-Western Lumber’s operations on the west side of Vancouver Island are complying with the Forest Practices Code, according to a Forest Practices Board audit released today. The Board’s audit examined Doman’s Tree Farm Licence 19 which is located near Gold River, Tahsis and Zeballos. “Doman-Western complied with the Code in all significant respects. […]

Lignum Ltd.’s Forestry Operations Get Clean Audit From Forest Practices Board

VICTORIA – Lignum Ltd.’s operations near 100 Mile House are complying with the Forest Practices Code, according to a Forest Practices Board audit released today. “Lignum’s practices complied with the code in all significant respects,” said board chair Keith Moore. “The audit did not identify any non-compliance in timber harvesting, road maintenance and road deactivation. […]

Ndazkhot’en Forest Management near Quesnel passes audit

An audit of Ndazkhot’en Forest Management’s forestry activities on forest licences A65926 and A81934, near the Village of Nazko west of Quesnel, found compliance with B.C.’s forestry legislation, according to a report released today.

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 to audit forest licence near Kamloops

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will examine forest licence A89984, held by Adams Lake, in the Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District, during the week of June 25, 2018. Auditors will examine whether harvesting, roads, silviculture, fire protection and associated planning, carried out between June 1, 2016, and June 29, 2018, met the requirements of […]

Better forest practices needed near streams

Skeena Cellulose Inc. needs to improve some logging practices near streams, but otherwise it was found to have generally complied with the Forest Practices Code in an audit of Tree Farm Licence 1 near Terrace.

Forest Practices Board Finds Problems in Approval Process for Babine Bridge Location

Victoria – In a report released today, the Forest Practices Board criticized the government’s approval process for the location of a bridge across the Babine River, near New Hazelton. Both the Ministry of Forests and Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks knew they had a significant disagreement about the location of the bridge and its […]

Board to audit Interfor operations

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest practices of International Forest Products Ltd. on Forest Licence (FL) A18969, in the Arrow Boundary Forest District, for compliance with forest practices legislation. The audit will examine planning, harvesting, roads, silviculture and fire protection activities carried out in the two years since Interfor acquired the licence […]