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Government addressing New Skeena obligations on Nisga’a Lands

VICTORIA – The provincial government is making good progress in addressing significant non-compliance by New Skeena Forest Products on Nisga’a lands, the Forest Practices Board reported today. The board’s fifth audit of forest planning and practices on Nisga’a lands found that all licensees apart from New Skeena were compliant with Forest Practices Code and Nisga’a […]

Board to audit BCTS operations on northern Vancouver Island

PORT MCNEILL – The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) program and timber sale licence holders in the North Island-Central Coast Natural Resource District, during the week starting Sept. 28, 2020. This BCTS program is one of two chosen randomly for audit this year from among all the […]

Forest Practices Board Audits Canfor’s Forest Licence A40873

Victoria – Today, the Forest Practices Board began an audit of Forest Licence A40873, held by Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor). The audit will examine the Fort St. James division of this licence. The operating areas for this division are located near Fort St. James, northwest in the Takla Lake area and east towards Highway […]

Board to audit BCTS operations in Campbell River Forest District

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit BC Timber Sales operations in the Strait of Georgia Business Area, encompassing Gold River on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Sayward on the east, and including Mainland areas across from Campbell River. The audit will take place between July 19 and 31 and will examine harvesting, […]

Board to Audit BCTS in Rocky Mountain Forest District

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of the British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) program in the Rocky Mountain Forest District. The audit will examine BCTS’s operations located throughout the Cranbrook and Invermere timber supply areas, and including portions of the Rocky Mountain Trench, Purcell Mountains, and Rocky Mountains. […]

Regenerating dry interior Douglas-fir forests proves challenging

VICTORIA – A special investigation of reforestation in dry interior Douglas-fir (IDF) forests in the B.C. interior has found current efforts may not be leading to future healthy forests, according to a report released on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. “While we found that industry is following legal requirements and is increasingly planting a variety of tree […]