Communication, Mandate Capacity & Execution and Board’s Future Focus – Executive Summary
The Forest Practices Board initiated this review of its communications, capacity & execution of its mandate,…
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Forestry Audit: BCTS and Timber Sale Licence Holders – Prince George Business Area, Prince George District
As part of the Forest Practices Board’s 2013 compliance audit program, the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) program and timber…
Forestry Audit: BCTS & Timber Sales Licensees – Stuart Nechako Business Area – Vanderhoof District
As part of its 2016 compliance audit program, the Forest Practices Board randomly selected the Vanderhoof Natural Resource District portion of BC Timber Sales’ (BCTS) Stuart-Nechako Business Area for audit. The Vanderhoof District covers approximately 1.4 million hectares and contains the communities of Vanderhoof and Fraser Lake. Vanderhoof is surrounded by the Northern Interior Plateau’s […]
Forestry Audit: BCTS and Timber Sale Licence Holders – Skeena Business Area, Coast Mountains Resource District
As part of the Forest Practices Board’s 2013 compliance audit program, the BC Timber Sales program and timber sale…
Management of Douglas-fir Bark Beetles Southeast of Kamloops, BC
An experienced forest worker was concerned that Tolko had not removed all the trees it felled to trap Douglas-fir bark beetle before the insects emerged and that some of its harvest practices increased the infestation level in ungulate winter range in the Upper Salmon River area. Douglas-fir bark beetle is normally present at low levels […]
Cutblocks and Roads near Furlong Creek
A resident of Lakelse Lake, near Terrace, wrote to the Board with concerns about forest practices in a…
Harvest Planning and Practices in the Hunaker Creek Watershed
In July 2012, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint that a BC Timber Sales (BCTS) logging operation in the…
Forestry Audit: British Columbia Timber Sales Seaward-tlasta Business Area
In June 2009, the Board conducted a full-scope compliance audit of forest planning and practices of the British…
Balancing Community Needs and Pine Beetle Logging in the Robson Valley
The Fraser Headwaters Alliance (the complainant) complained to the Forest Practices Board about a plan to harvest trees…
