For immediate release May 24, 2022 VICTORIA – During the week of May 30, 2022, the Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) program and timber-sale licence holders near Williams Lake, in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District. Auditors will examine whether timber harvesting, roads, bridges, silviculture, fire protection activities […]
Location 310 - 1675 Douglas StreetVictoria BC V8W 2G5Canada Mailing Address PO Box 9905 Stn Prov GovtVictoria BC V8W 9R1Canada Phone: (250) 213-4700Toll Free (in British Columbia only): 1-800-994-5899Email: FPBoard@bcfpb.ca Rady Creek Forest Service Road The Forest Practices Board has received multiple submissions concerning the planned deactivation of Rady Creek Forest Service Road. These submissions are […]
On September 9, 2019, the Forest Practices Board received a complaint from a resident of Kitwanga. The complainant is concerned that planned harvesting of BC Timber Sales (BCTS) timber sale license A52734 Block 001 will damage valuable mushroom habitat. The complaint considered BCTS’s legal obligations under the Forest and Range Practices Act and investigated whether […]
VICTORIA – An investigation of the impacts of forestry activities on drinking water from the Peachland and Trepanier community watersheds has found that forest licensees did a good job of minimizing the impacts of logging on water and that natural processes played a much larger role in the boil water advisories that Peachland has experienced […]
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.
