Victoria - Forest practices in BC have improved significantly and the environmental impacts associated with logging and road construction have been reduced. That is one of the main conclusions of the 1998 Annual Report of the Forest Practices Board, tabled yesterday in the BC Legislature. "There is some good news here. Forest companies, government and […]
Victoria - BC's independent watchdog for sound forest practices welcomes the government's announcement of the Identified Wildlife Management Strategy. "The Identified Wildlife Management Strategy is one of the important pieces of the Forest Practices Code that we had identified as missing. The government's announcement is a step in the right direction," said Forest Practices Board […]
VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board has found that there is a systemic failure in government policy to protect threatened species such as marbled murrelets on crown forest lands. The findings were released as the close of a board investigation of a 1999 complaint concerning logging approvals in the Brand Valley on south-western Vancouver Island, […]
Clear government direction and removing constraints on habitat protection are key priorities for preserving the threatened marbled murrelet on B.C.’s south coast, according to a Forest Practices Board special report released today.
An audit report released today concludes that Pope and Talbot’s forest planning and practices on Tree Farm Licence 23 in the West Kootenay complied with the Forest Practices Code.
The Board conducts its work throughout British Columbia, and we respectfully acknowledge the territories of the many Indigenous Peoples who have lived on these lands since time immemorial.
