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Bulletin 016 – Risk Across Resource Values in Forest Operations (2014)
This bulletin explores risk management in BC forest operations, and suggests that it needs to be transparent and fair,…
Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: Mackenzie Fibre Management Corporation – FLTC A87345
As part of the Forest Practices Board’s 2013 compliance audit program, the Board selected the Mackenzie District as the…
Board to audit forestry activities near Smithers
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of Lowell A. Johnson Consultants Ltd. on forest licence A77026 and non-replaceable forest licence A90554, during the week of Oct. 5, 2015. The auditors will examine all operational planning, harvesting, roads, silviculture and wildfire protection practices for compliance with the Forest and Range Practices Act […]
Board to audit two community forests
VICTORIA – Two community forest licences held by the Tumbler Ridge Community Forest Corp. and Little Prairie Community Forest Inc. will be audited, starting Sept. 26, 2016. The auditors will examine all operational planning, harvesting, roads, silviculture and wildfire protection practices for compliance with the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire Act. Tumbler […]
Did Construction of Road 200 in the Hasty Creek Watershed Meet Forest Practices Code Requirements?
In July 2000, the Board received a complaint from the Valhalla Wilderness Society – Forest Watch (the complainant)…
Pilot Audit of Soil Conservation in the Columbia Forest District
This soil conservation pilot audit took place in the Golden Timber Supply Area of the Columbia Forest District. Three…
Dunkley Lumber Slows Mountain Pine Beetle Spread
A Quesnel-area forest company is getting high marks from the Forest Practices Board for the way it managed mountain pine beetle, and for the light footprint it left on a recently-audited operating area
BCTS Timber Sales Program in Kootenay Lake gets clean audit
VICTORIA – An audit of forest planning and practices in the Kootenay Lake Forest District has found compliance, according to a Forest Practices Board report. The audit of the British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) program, and 16 timber sale licence holders, took place from June 25 to 28, 2007. It checked for compliance with the Forest […]
