Pilot Effectiveness Audits: Use of Criteria and Indicators to Date – Lessons Learned
The Forest Practices Board is mandated to audit government’s and agreement holders’ compliance with forest practices…
The Forest Practices Board is mandated to audit government’s and agreement holders’ compliance with forest practices…
This special report takes a look at the results of Board audits under the Forest and Range Practices Act and the…
The Forest Practices Board has released a final report which concludes the investigation of a complaint filed with the Board in late 1995. This is the first major investigation report completed by the Board since the Code came into effect on June 15, 1995. The complaint was about the September 1995 approval of logging in […]
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will investigate how much progress communities have made in reducing forest fuels in the wildland-urban interface. The investigation is a follow-up to a report the Board published in February 2010. “We decided earlier this year that it was time to take a look and see what has happened since […]
VICTORIA – An audit of the McLeod Lake Mackenzie community forest in the Mackenzie Natural Resource District has found compliance with B.C.’s forestry legislation. The community forest is jointly managed by the District of Mackenzie and the McLeod Lake Indian Band. “We are pleased to see that the community forest carried out sound forest practices and […]
In June 2012, the Board received a complaint about Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd.’s (the licensee) planned road building…
The Forest Practices Board is an independent government body that reports to the public about compliance and enforcement of the Forest Practices Code and the achievement of its intent. One of the responsibilities of the Board is to deal with public complaints relating to forestry matters included in the Code. The Board is completing an […]
This investigation reviews the achievement of free-growing status – replacement of logged sites with healthy new…
Monitoring and control of invasive plants is important because of the serious environmental, economic, and health…