Yucwmenlúcwu (“Caretakers of the Land”) 2007 LLP – NRFL A89359
Audit: BCTS and TSLs – Okanagan-Columbia Business Area – Columbia Field Unit
Impacts of Wildfire and Harvesting Near Silver Hills
Closing Letter – Rose Swanson Mountain
Audit: DM Obligations on FSRs – Okanagan Shuswap Natural Resource District
Closing Letter: Bastion Creek Community Watershed
In April 2019, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from a business owner and an environmental society (the complainants) who requested access to a hydrological assessment prepared for the Bastion Creek community watershed. The assessment was commissioned jointly for BC Timber Sales and Canoe Forest Products (the licensees).
Closing Letter: Bastion Creek Community Watershed
Forestry Activities in the Peachland and Trepanier Creek Community Watersheds
Forestry Activities in the Peachland and Trepanier Creek Community Watersheds
In November 2017, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint about impacts to water quality in the Peachland and Trepanier community watersheds. The complainants asserted that forestry activities in the watersheds have negatively affected the quality of drinking water and increased the number of boil water advisory notices, resulted in stream bank erosion and caused a landslide off the Munroe Forest Service Road (FSR) into Peachland Creek.
Forestry activities complied with the legal requirements. There are many developments and activities in these watersheds, in addition to forestry, that can impact the water resource and it was not possible to differentiate between forestry and non-forestry impacts. The investigation determined that forestry activities did not cause impacts on human health that could not be addressed through water treatment. The landslide on the Munroe FSR was not caused by forestry activities and licensees maintained natural drainage patterns and maintained forestry roads consistent with the FPPR.
