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Logging debris poses fire risk, complaint reveals
VICTORIA – Decked timber and logging debris in the Shovel Lake Wildfire made firefighting more difficult, according to a complaint investigation report. A member of a wildfire response team complained to the board in 2018 after seeing large amounts of logs and debris on the ground. He was concerned the material contributed to the spread […]
Cumulative Effects: From Assessment Towards Management
The Forest Practices Board has had growing concerns about the cumulative effects of resource use on the British…
Audit of Visual Resources Management: Campbell River Forest District
Interfor, TFL Forest Ltd. (Timberwest), Weyerhaeuser Ltd. and Canfor, along with BCTS, in the Campbell River Forest…
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…
Evaluating Mountain Pine Beetle Management in British Columbia
Lodgepole pine is an abundant species in the interior of British Columbia (BC) and is important to the region’s forest…
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 […]
Windthrow Management on Vancouver Island Recognized in Audit
VICTORIA – Western Forest Products Inc. received a clean audit for operations in Tree Farm Licence 6 on northern Vancouver Island, the Forest Practices Board reported today. The board audited Western’s timber harvesting and associated planning activities for 159 cutblocks on the northern portion of Vancouver Island, and found Western was in compliance with legislative […]
Conservation of Species at Risk under the Forest and Range Practices Act: Marbled Murrelets on the Sunshine Coast
In July 2006, the district manager of the Sunshine Coast Forest District approved a FSP submitted by International…
Section 41 of the Forest Practices Code – Adequate Management and Conservation of Forest Resources
Section 41 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act (the Act) governs the approval of operational plans to…
