Approval of logging within rare mushroom habitat in the Sunshine Coast Forest District
On November 28, 1995, the Board received a complaint from a member of the public asserting that “logging has been…
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Appropriateness of a Stop Work Order for a Woodlot near Midway, BC in the Boundary Forest District
The complainant is a professional forester in good standing, a former woodlot extension forester and former president…
Forest Practices in the Leet Creek Watershed, near Kaslo, BC
On May 14, 2007, Valhalla Wilderness Society (the complainant) submitted a complaint about Meadow Creek Cedar Limited’s…
Board Audit Will Examine Mountain Pine Beetle Management
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will conduct an audit this September looking specifically at forest activities related to the ongoing mountain pine beetle infestation in north-central BC. Mountain pine beetles attack and kill mature trees by boring through the bark and mining the layer between the bark and wood of a tree. About half […]
Board to audit forestry companies in Burns Lake area
The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of 639881 BC Ltd. on forest licence A72921 and Burnslake Specialty Wood Ltd. on non-replaceable forest licence A66762, during the week of Sept. 16.
Audit of Road and Timber Harvesting Practices: International Forest Products Ltd. – TFL 45
The objective of the audit was to determine if timber harvesting and road construction, maintenance, and deactivation…
Forest Practices Code Penalties and Environmental Damage
Over the last two-and-one-half years, the Board has become concerned about the occasional failure of government…
BCTS, licence holders perform well under Fort St. John Code Pilot Regulation
VICTORIA – The BC Timber Sales Program and timber sale licence holders in Fort St. John have received good grades from the Forest Practices Board for their operations under a Forest Practices Code pilot project. In 1999, the provincial government passed legislation to enable results-based pilot projects under the former Forest Practices Code. Only two […]
