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Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: Small Business Forest Enterprise Program (SBFEP) - South Island Forest District

This is a report on a compliance audit of the SBFEP, in the South Island Forest District. The audit examined all...
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Forestry Audit: BCTS & Timber Sales Licensees - Stuart Nechako Business Area - Vanderhoof District

As part of its 2016 compliance audit program, the Forest Practices Board randomly selected the Vanderhoof Natural Resource District portion of BC Timber Sales' (BCTS) Stuart-Nechako Business Area for audit. The Vanderhoof District covers approximately 1.4 million hectares and contains the communities of Vanderhoof and Fraser Lake. Vanderhoof is surrounded by the Northern Interior Plateau’s […]
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Report Looks at Rangelands in East Kootenays

VICTORIA – This special report examines the actions implemented by government and others to improve rangeland in the East Kootenays and finds progress is being made. While there is progress, the Forest Practices Board investigation identified a number of issues that threaten this progress and the sustainability of rangelands over the longer term. These threats […]
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Restoring and Maintaining Rangelands in the East Kootenay

In 2008, a Forest Practices Board complaint investigation found that cattle and elk were over-grazing rangelands in the East Kootenay and the Board recommended that government reduce forage use. A follow-up investigation by the Board in 2015 reported that actions undertaken by government since 2008 had successfully reduced elk populations and grazing allocations for cattle […]
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Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: FL A20020 - West Fraser Mills Ltd.

This is a report on a compliance audit of Forest Licence A20020 held by West Fraser Mills Ltd. The audit examined West...
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Naming Individuals in Board Reports

Naming Individuals in Board Reports Occasionally, audits and investigations identify an issue or situation that would reflect negatively on an individual if they were identified in a Board report. In June 2012, the Board adopted the following policy for naming of individuals in reports: If a person is a party as defined by FRPA1, and […]
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Issue #15 - Summer 2016

In my meetings with stakeholders and professionals I have heard some comment that the Board never acknowledges good practices, and from others I have heard the concern that there is just a minimum standard of forestry being practiced in the woods. I think we can all agree we want our practices to be second to […]
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Comment on the Cutblock Review

The new Forest Practices Code of B.C. Act requires a review of all cutblocks (areas identified for timber harvesting)...
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Audit of Forest Planning and Practices: SN Forestry Operations Ltd - Forest Licence to Cut A82551

In May 2016 the Forest Practices Board audited the activities of SN Forestry Operations Ltd.'s Forestry Licence to Cut A82551 in the Sea to Sky Natural Resource District. SN Forestry is owned by the Squamish Nation, and the licence permits it to harvest 592 800 cubic metres of timber from within the boundaries of Tree […]
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Board to audit Conifex forest licence

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit forest licence A15385, held by Conifex Mackenzie Forest Products Inc., in the Mackenzie Forest District, from Oct. 4 to Oct. 8, 2010. Conifex purchased the licence from AbitibiBowater earlier this year. There has not been any active logging on this licence for the past few years, and there are […]
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