VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board is auditing forest practices of the BC Timber Sales Program in the North Island-Central Coast Forest District. The four-day audit, which began June 22, is examining timber harvesting, roads, silviculture, fire protection activities, and associated planning, conducted by timber sale licence holders and BCTS, for compliance with forest practices […]
As part of the Forest Practices Board’s 2011 compliance audit program, the Board randomly selected the Selkirk District…
The Forest Practices Board has completed an assessment of the health of riparian areas subject to cattle grazing on…
Bridges only issue in Ainsworth audit Ainsworth Lumber Company Ltd. is generally complying with the Forest Practices Code but needs to pay more attention to keeping logging road bridges in good order, says a report released today by the Forest Practices Board.
The District Manager of the Horsefly Forest District approved construction of a barbed wire fence under a grazing…
This report discusses the history of water quality objectives (WQOs) under the Forest Practices Code (the Code) and…
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of Canadian Resurgence Developments Ltd. on forest licence A16884 in the Coast Mountain Resource District, during the week of Sept. 6, 2016. Auditors will assess whether forest planning and practices carried out between September 2014 and September 2016 met the requirements of the Forest and […]
In August 2009, the Forest Practices Board conducted an audit of visual resource management in the Kamloops Timber…
Figure 1. Paddlers cautiously approach a cave in Barclay Sound, Vancouver Island. There is something special, and especially sensitive, in BC’s coastal forests – karst. Karst is formed by water dissolving limestone over many thousands of years, creating shafts, sinkholes, caves, disappearing streams and springs. About 10% of BC has bedrock that is suitable for […]
