VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) program and timber sale licence holders in the Dawson Creek Timber Supply Area (TSA) portion of the Peace-Liard Business Area, during the week of June 4, 2018. Auditors will examine whether harvesting, roads, bridges, silviculture, fire protection activities and associated […]
The Forest Practices Board today released a report on the results of its first audit of a Ministry of Forests Small Business Forest Enterprise Program (SBFEP). The audit examined - an audit of the operational planning for forest management activities approved between January and October 1996 in the Lakes Forest District SBFEP, near Burns Lake, […]
Auditing BC Timber Sales Introduction A significant portion of the provincial timber harvest is carried out by the holders of timber sales licences under a program called BC Timber Sales (BCTS), formerly known as the Small Business Forest Enterprise Program. The management, organization and practices of BCTS differ significantly from other forest tenures. The Forest […]
Victoria - The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices on Tree Farm Licence 55 held by Evans Forest Products Ltd., a division of Louisiana-Pacific Canada Engineered Wood Products Ltd. The operating area for this licence is in the Columbia timber supply area, 90 kilometres north of Revelstoke, on the east side […]
Victoria - The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of Skeena Cellulose Inc. on Forest Licence A16829. The operating area for this licence is the Bulkley timber supply area, north of Smithers. This is a limited-scope audit that will look at construction, maintenance and deactivation of roads; timber harvesting; and associated […]
Victoria - The Forest Practices Board will audit the forest planning and practices of Atco Lumber Ltd. in Forest Licence A20218. The operating area for this licence is in the Kootenay Lake timber supply area south of Nelson. This is a full-scope audit that will look at operational planning; construction, maintenance and deactivation of roads; […]
VICTORIA– In a new report on the state of access management, the Forest Practices Board estimates that B.C. now has over 600,000 kilometres of resource roads and concludes that the provincial government’s information about and management of these roads remains inadequate. “It is extremely difficult for the public and other users of resource roads to […]
Victoria - Today, the Forest Practices Board began an audit of Forest Licence A18671, held by Gorman Bros. Lumber Ltd. The operating area for this licence is in the South Okanagan on both sides of Okanagan Lake close to Westbank, Naramata and Summerland, as well as south of that area around Keremeos. The audit will […]
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.
