The Forest Practices Board received a complaint about compliance of planning and practices under the Haida Gwaii Land Use Objectives Order by British Columbia Timber Sales. The complainant identified cutblocks in the Naikoon landscape unit and was specifically concerned about sustainable stewardship of cedar, watershed level hydrological processes, and landscape level conservation of biodiversity. The […]
VICTORIA – In a study of recently logged areas, the Forest Practices Board found that fire hazard was reduced satisfactorily in most cases, but no licensees fully met the legal requirement to assess fire hazard as required by the Wildfire Act, according to a report released today. The study examined 111 randomly selected cutblocks, harvested […]
VICTORIA –The Forest Practices Board’s 2012-13 annual report was released today, and summarizes the Board’s work over the year, as published in 29 reports, as well as highlighting work currently underway. “When the Forest and Range Practices Act was introduced in 2004, it was understood that improvements would be necessary as circumstances changed and we […]
There are some 400,000 to 550,000 kilometres of resource roads in BC, used for forestry, oil and gas, mining and…
The Sierra Club’s Haida Gwaii group filed a complaint regarding development within the Bonanza Wildlife Habitat Area…
Interfor, TFL Forest Ltd. (Timberwest), Weyerhaeuser Ltd. and Canfor, along with BCTS, in the Campbell River Forest…
In May 2009, the Upper Nechako Wilderness Council (the complainant) submitted a complaint that Canadian Forest Products…
