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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...
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CLOSING LETTER: Sechelt Boundary

Sunshine Coast Conservation Association submitted a complaint that Interfor did not show the municipal boundary of Sechelt in the correct position on their forest development plan maps.
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Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: Northern Nlaka’pamux Forestry Resources Ltd. - NRFL A73168

Northern Nlaka’pamux Forestry Resources Ltd., based in Lytton, compiled with forest practices legislation and worked efficiently to salvage fire-damaged timber. NNFR also followed the direction set by the Kamloops Land and Resource Management Plan, in areas such as retaining undamaged trees in old-growth management areas and respecting the needs of recreational users.
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CLOSING LETTER: Forest Harvesting and Road Building in Laird Creek Watershed

The Laird Creek Water Users asked the Board to investigate approval of an amendment to a BCTS forest development plan....
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Biodiversity Management in the Revelstoke Timber Supply Area

In 2005, when government established the original Revelstoke Higher Level Plan Order (RHLPO), it included a provision...
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Resource Road Construction in Steep Terrain

This is a Board special investigation to determine whether the parties who construct resource roads on steep terrain are meeting legal requirements of FRPA and following professional standards of practice and the related guidelines of the professional regulatory bodies. Are the roads stable, safe for industrial and public use, constructed according to plan, and is the potential for […]
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Forest Practices Board Releases Findings on Bulkley Valley RAMP Investigation

VICTORIA - In a report released today, the Forest Practices Board has found that it was appropriate for the Bulkley Valley Forest District not to restrict snowmobile users’ access to Harold Price Meadows and Blunt Creek basin. However, the Board also found that the Recreational Access Management Plan (RAMP) process was flawed because there were […]
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Logging Approval Overturned For Over 50 North Coast Cutblocks

Victoria - A review panel has upheld a request by the Forest Practices Board to overturn government approval of over 50 cutblocks in the north Coast area. This Forest Practices Code decision affects International Forest Products (Interfor) operations in a forest licence in the Scotia Creek area east of Prince Rupert and around Surf Inlet […]
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Mid Coast Audit Reports Harm to Marine and Stream Habitats

Victoria - The forestry operations of the Mid Coast district's small business forest enterprise program generally complied with Forest Practices Code requirements, says a report released today by the Forest Practices Board. The only significant non-compliance involved harvesting along the marine foreshore and road construction next to a fish-bearing stream. The report concludes the board's […]
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Logging road in a river must address environmental concerns

VICTORIA -A proposed logging road along the Goat River should not have been approved by the Ministry of Forests without a rationale and before environmental concerns were addressed, the Forest Practices Board says in an investigation report released today. The board’s report responds to a complaint filed by the Fraser Headwaters Alliance in July 2000, […]
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